US Patent Issued to THORDRIVE on May 13 for "Efficient map matching method for autonomous driving and apparatus thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,141, issued on May 13, was assigned to THORDRIVE Co. LTD (Seoul, South Korea).

"Efficient map matching method for autonomous driving and apparatus thereof" was invented by Gyumin Oh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A map matching method for autonomous driving includes extracting a first statistical map from 3D points contained in 3D map data; extracting a second statistical map from 3D points of surroundings which are obtained by a detection sensor simultaneously or after the previous extracting of the statistical map; dividing the second statistical map into a vertical-object part and a horizontal-object part; and ...