US Patent Issued to RideFlux on Oct. 7 for "Method, apparatus and computer program for compressing NDT map data for autonomous driving system" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,270, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to RideFlux Inc. (Jeju-Si, South Korea).

"Method, apparatus and computer program for compressing NDT map data for autonomous driving system" was invented by Jiwoong Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hawook Jeong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method, apparatus, and a computer program for compressing NDT map data for an autonomous driving system. Various embodiments of the present invention provide a method of compressing normal distribution transform (NDT) map data generated by modeling a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud for a predetermined area as a normal distributi...