US Patent Issued to Nissan North America on July 28 for "Data-based driveline estimation and mapping" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,902, issued on July 28, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Data-based driveline estimation and mapping" was invented by Hsin-Min Cheng (Millbrae, Calif.) and Christopher Ostafew (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data-based driveline map is determined using road-level map data and driveline data for road users. The map data includes way data comprising one or more ways, a way includes a series of nodes, and the driveline data includes drivelines, where a driveline is a series of poses representing a road user. A first section of the way data is identified as an intersection, and second ...