US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 22 for "Methods and systems for distributing high definition map using edge device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,661, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Methods and systems for distributing high definition map using edge device" was invented by Dawei Chen (Mountain View, Calif.), Haoxin Wang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kyungtae Han (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An edge device for providing an HD map to a vehicle is provided. The edge device includes a controller programmed to obtain an HD map request including a task type from a vehicle, obtain a status of a wireless channel between the vehicle and the e...