ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,356, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"3-dimensional (3D) map generation system and method for creating 3D map of surroundings of a vehicle" was invented by Tejas Tanksale (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a 3D map generation system, and a device for generating 3D map of surroundings of a vehicle. In the system, conditions of the surroundings are detected. Further, cameras and sensing devices are operated based on the conditions to generate a 3D data representation of the surroundings. A combined 3D map of the surroundings is generated using a com...