US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on June 23 for "Map health monitoring for autonomous systems and applications" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,290, issued on June 23, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Map health monitoring for autonomous systems and applications" was invented by Amir Akbarzadeh (San Jose, Calif.), Ruchi Bhargava (Redmond, Wash.) and Vaibhav Thukral (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, health of a high definition (HD) map may be monitored to determine whether inaccuracies exist in one or more layers of the HD map. For example, as one or more vehicles rely on the HD map to traverse portions of an environment, disagreements between perception of the one or more vehicles, map layers of the HD map, and/or other ...