US Patent Issued to Nauto on Nov. 3 for "System and method for precision localization and mapping" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,134, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Nauto Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"System and method for precision localization and mapping" was invented by Vaibhav Ghadiok (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Michael Gleeson-May (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for localization and mapping, including recording an image at a camera mounted to a vehicle, the vehicle associated with a global system location; identifying a landmark depicted in the image with a landmark identification module of a computing system associated with the vehicle, the identified landmark having a landmark geographic location and a known parameter; extracting ...