ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,718, issued on March 11, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Encoding junction information in map data" was invented by Russell Chreptyk (Seattle), Matthew Ashman (Redmond, Wash.), Andy Campbell (Kirkland, Wash.), Tharun Battula (Redmond, Wash.) and Vaibhav Thukral (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to encoding of junction area information in map data. In particular, the encoding may include organizing vehicle paths that traverse through a junction area according to path groups and organizing contentions that influence behavior of vehicles traveling along the...