ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,820, issued on June 17, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Mapping a vehicle environment" was invented by Krzysztof Kogut (Cracow, Poland), Jakub Porebski (Cracow, Poland) and Maciej Rozewicz (Cracow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and device for mapping a vehicle environment of a vehicle are disclosed. The method comprises determining an occupancy grid representing the vehicle environment, including occupancy probability information of a first set of object detections. The occupancy probability information is determined from first positioning information obtained ...