ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,799, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NEC Corporation Of America (Herzlia, Israel).
"Object based vehicle localization" was invented by Yaacov Hoch (Ramat-Gan, Israel), Daniel Bolgar (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yoav Badikhi (Rehovot, Israel) and Tsvi Lev (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of self-localizing with respect to surrounding objects, comprising obtaining an approximated geolocation of the vehicle, retrieving mapping data comprising a geolocation of one or more stationary objects located in an area surrounding the approximated geolocation, receiving imagery data of a surrounding environment of the vehicle ca...