US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on June 17 for "High definition (HD) map content representation and distribution for autonomous vehicles" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,079, issued on June 17, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"High definition (HD) map content representation and distribution for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Matthew Ashman (Bellevue, Wash.), Galen Collins (Seattle) and Russell Chreptyk (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, a network of servers, such as a content delivery network, is used to provide a lightweight approach to hosting and serving HD map data to vehicles. The lightweight approach may allow for modifying various map components, such as tiles, layers, and/or segments. Modifying may include adding, removing, and/or updating t...