ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,135, issued on June 24, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Navigable boundary generation for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Derek Thomas Miller (Palo Alto, Calif.), Lin Yang (San Carlos, Calif.) and Mark Damon Wheeler (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system accesses a three-dimensional map of a geographic region and generates a two-dimensional projection of the road based on the three-dimensional map. The two-dimensional projection comprises a plurality of points along the road and each point is assigned a score measuring a navigability of the point. Based on the navigability score of each po...