ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,928, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"System and method for mapping a vehicle environment" was invented by Jakub Porebski (Cracow, Poland), Krzysztof Kogut (Cracow, Poland) and Maciej Rozewicz (Cracow, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a computer-implemented method for mapping a vehicle environment, the method comprising: a) defining a first grid in the earth frame of reference having a first coordinate system; b) initializing a position of the vehicle in the first grid and a first set of cell occupancy values of the first grid; c) receiving sensor data of the surr...