ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,172, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Pittsburgh).
"Map selection for vehicle pose system" was invented by Rachel Ahn (Pittsburgh), David Prasser (Pittsburgh), Peter Hansen (Pittsburgh) and Robert Zlot (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are directed to systems and methods for locating a vehicle. A pose state estimator may access a previous position for the vehicle at a first time, wherein the previous position is on a first sub-map of a plurality of sub-maps. The pose state estimator may receive from a first localizer a first position estimate for the vehicle at a second time after t...