ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,370, issued on July 29, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for generating a map for autonomous driving and recognizing location" was invented by Seung Jun Han (Daejeon, South Korea), Jungyu Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyoung-Wook Min (Daejeon, South Korea), Taeghyun An (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jeong Dan Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for generating a map for autonomous driving and recognizing a location based on the generated map. When generating a map, a spherical range image is obtai...