US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on July 29 for "Environment reconstruction and path planning for autonomous systems and applications" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,040, issued on July 29, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Environment reconstruction and path planning for autonomous systems and applications" was invented by Elena Oleynikova (Zurich), Alexander James Millane (Zurich) and Emilie Lucie Eloise Wirbel (Nogent-sur-Marne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches for environment reconstruction and path planning for autonomous machine systems and applications are described. An iterative volumetric mapping function for an ego-machine may compute a distance field, and from the distance field derive a cost map representing a volumetric reconstruction of the physica...