US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on April 21 for "Map creation and localization for autonomous driving applications" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,480, issued on April 21, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Map creation and localization for autonomous driving applications" was invented by Amir Akbarzadeh (San Jose, Calif.), David Nister (Bellevue, Wash.), Ruchi Bhargava (Redmond, Wash.), Birgit Henke (Seattle), Ivana Stojanovic (Berkeley, Calif.) and Yu Sheng (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end-to-end system for data generation, map creation using the generated data, and localization to the created map is disclosed. Mapstreams-or streams of sensor data, perception outputs from deep neural networks (DNNs), and/or relative trajectory data-correspon...