US Patent Issued on Jan. 20 for "Determining autonomous vehicle status based on mapping of crowdsourced object data" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,381, issued on Jan. 20.

"Determining autonomous vehicle status based on mapping of crowdsourced object data" was invented by Gil Golov (Backnang, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A map in a cloud service stores physical objects previously detected by other vehicles that have previously traveled over the same road that a current vehicle is presently traveling on. New data received by the cloud service from the current vehicle regarding new objects that are being encountered by the current vehicle can be compared to the previous object data stored in the map. Based on this comparison, an operating status of the current vehicle is...