US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 8 for "High definition map based localization optimization" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,966, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"High definition map based localization optimization" was invented by Mark Damon Wheeler (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle, for example, an autonomous vehicle performs localization to determine the current location of the vehicle using different localization techniques as the vehicle drives. The localization technique used by the autonomous vehicle is selected from a localization variant index that stores mapping from a driving context to localization variant, each localization variant identifying a localization technique. The driving...