US Patent Issued on Jan. 13 for "Autonomous driving system in heterogeneous SD map and HD map environment and management method for the autonomous driving" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,244, issued on Jan. 13.

"Autonomous driving system in heterogeneous SD map and HD map environment and management method for the autonomous driving" was invented by Sung Won Yoon (Yongin-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous driving system may be capable of performing autonomous navigation adjustments using different maps. A user may input, on a first map, a departure point and/or a destination point. The autonomous vehicle may be configured to generate a first route using the departure point. The autonomous vehicle may initiate travel along a second route matching the first route using a different map. Based on...