ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,632, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Detection of a change in a drivable area" was invented by Khalid Yousif (Milpitas, Calif.) and Yong-Dian Jian (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for detecting a change in a drivable area. For example, the method includes determining a ground height associated with a cell of a tile map based on sensor data from a sensor of a vehicle and updating a base map based on a determination that there is a change in a drivable area of the vehicle based on at least the grou...