US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Nov. 3 for "Machine navigation" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,243, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Machine navigation" was invented by Akash Chandra Shekar (Redmond, Wash.), Andy Campbell (Kirkland, Wash.), Matthew Ashman (Redmond, Wash.), Russell Chreptyk (Seattle), Tharun Battula (Redmond, Wash.), Vaibhav Thukral (Bellevue, Wash.) and Wei Wang (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to performing navigation operations based on junction area information digested at runtime of one or more systems of a machine. In some embodiments, the junction area information may be encoded in map data corresponding to a ...