ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,353, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MOBILEYE VISION TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Jerusalem).
"Free space mapping and navigation" was invented by Daniel Braunstein (Tzur Hadassah, Israel), Ishay Levi (Jerusalem), Kfir Viente (Ramat Gan, Israel), David Huberman (Jerusalem) and Matan Argaman (Jerusalem).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for mapping road segment free spaces for use in autonomous vehicle navigation. The system includes at least one processor programmed to: receive from a first vehicle one or more location identifiers associated with a lateral region of free space adjacent to a road segment; update an autonomous vehicle roa...