ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,851, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Sensor plugin architecture for grid map" was invented by Oliver F. Schwindt (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Stephan Reuter (Bavaria, Germany), Christos Zalidis (Mountain View, Calif.) and Tobias Berling (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling an autonomous vehicle. One system includes an electronic processor and a memory configured to store a multi-layer grid and a multi-instanceable sensor plugin. The multi-layer grid includes information associated with positions in the environment. A plurality of sensors are configu...