ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,030, issued on July 29, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Localization of a vehicle" was invented by Ankit Girish Vora (Northville, Mich.), Nalin Bendapudi (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Siddharth Agarwal (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Devarth Parikh (Ann Arbor, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive a first top-view image of an area obtained from a sensor external to a vehicle, generate a second top-view image of the area based on data from a camera of the vehicle, and determine an estimated location of t...