US Patent Issued to CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS on Nov. 11 for "Method to create online vectorized maps for autonomous vehicles" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,768, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS Ltd. (Tuam, Ireland).

"Method to create online vectorized maps for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Lihao Wang (Troy, Mich.), Xinhua Xiao (Troy, Mich.), Thomas Heitzmann (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany), Damien Bouges (Troy, Mich.), He Huang (Troy, Mich.) and Peter Groth (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for creating online vectorized maps for autonomous vehicles includes an image sensor and an electronic control unit (ECU). The image sensor captures a series of image frames. The ECU includes a memory, a central processing unit (CPU), and a transceive...