US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 10 for "Apparatus, method, and computer program for collecting feature data" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,346, issued on June 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Apparatus, method, and computer program for collecting feature data" was invented by Masahiro Tanaka (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for collecting feature data includes a memory configured to store map information including a probability distribution of reliability indicating how likely a feature related to travel of vehicles exists as a function of position; and one or more processors configured to store feature data indicating the position of the feature in the memory whenever receiving the feature data from any of one or mor...