US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on April 8 for "Using mapping data for generating perception-impacting environmental features for autonomous vehicles" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,475, issued on April 8, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Using mapping data for generating perception-impacting environmental features for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Noel Villegas (Santa Clarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present disclosure provide a computer-implemented system, comprising instructions for performing operations including: estimating locations in a region of a map where features associated with water, snow or ice are likely to be formed under certain adverse weather conditions; simulating one of the adverse weather conditions; generating the features associ...