US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 18 for "Apparatus and method for collecting data for map generation, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,000, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Apparatus and method for collecting data for map generation, and vehicle" was invented by Ryo Neyama (Tokyo), Masahiro Tanaka (Tokyo) and Jun Koreishi (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for collecting data for map generation includes a processor configured to determine whether the current state of a vehicle is suitable for collection of collection target data to be used for generating or updating a map, based on suitability data received from the vehicle with a communication device. The suitability data indicates suitability of th...