ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,385, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Systems and methods for lateral position-based trace clustering" was invented by Alexander Christoph Schaefer (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to generating driving trajectories for routes along a road based on vehicle traces through lane gates. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a network of lane gates across a representation of a road. The method also includes, for a target lane gate, 1) clustering vehicle traces passing through the target lane gate based on a trac...