US Patent Issued to Lyft on Feb. 17 for "Validating a map reconstruction using sensor data constraints" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,256, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Validating a map reconstruction using sensor data constraints" was invented by Luca Del Pero (London) and Robert Kesten (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples disclosed herein may involve a computing system that is operable to (i) receive image data and corresponding secondary sensor data, (ii) generate a reconstruction of a map from the image data, wherein the reconstruction comprises sequential pose information, (iii) determine constraints from the secondary sensor data, and (iv) validate the reconstruction of the map by applying the determined constraints...