ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,467, issued on April 21, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).
"Shared tile map with live updates" was invented by Roman Sergeev (San Francisco), Andrea Allais (San Francisco) and Gautier Minster (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for synchronizing a map within shared memory for a navigating autonomous vehicle. A map, defined by a geographical area around an autonomous vehicle navigating a route, can be received and stored in shared memory. The shared memory can be a specific physical block of RAM. Concurrent access to the map within the shared memory can be gr...