US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Feb. 11 for "Detection of misalignment hotspots for high definition maps for navigating autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,593, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Detection of misalignment hotspots for high definition maps for navigating autonomous vehicles" was invented by Chen Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Mark Damon Wheeler (Saratoga, Calif.) and Liang Zou (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-definition map system receives sensor data from vehicles travelling along routes and combines the data to generate a high definition map for use in driving vehicles, for example, for guiding autonomous vehicles. A pose graph is built from the collected data, each pose representing location and orientation of a v...