ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,149, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cybernet Systems Corp. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).
"System and method for generating precise road lane map data" was invented by Charles J. Jacobus (Brighton, Mich.), Glenn J. Beach (Grass Lake, Mich.), Douglas Haanpaa (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Charles J. Cohen (Ann Arbor, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle system for generating precise, lane-level road map data includes a GPS receiver operative to acquire positional information associated with a track along a road path. An inertial sensor provides time local measurement of acceleration and turn rate along the track, and a camera acquires i...