US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 11 for "Apparatus, method, and computer program for determining sections for map update" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,844, issued on March 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Apparatus, method, and computer program for determining sections for map update" was invented by Masahiro Tanaka (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for determining sections for map update includes a processor configured to calculate a score indicating the degree of improvement of drivers' convenience provided by generating or updating map information regarding two or more road sections selected from road sections where the map information is unavailable, based on handover costs between autonomous driving and manual driving, calcu...