US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Feb. 11 for "Autonomous driving system in heterogeneous SD map and HD map environment and method for operating autonomous driving system" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,208, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Autonomous driving system in heterogeneous SD map and HD map environment and method for operating autonomous driving system" was invented by Sung Won Yoon (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment is an autonomous driving system in a heterogeneous SD map and precise map environment, which can provide an autonomous driving service using a heterogeneous SD map having properties that do not match those of a precise map. The autonomous driving system in a heterogeneous SD map and HD map environment includes a serv...