US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 4 for "Localization system, localization method, storage medium, and map generation device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,278, issued on March 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Localization system, localization method, storage medium, and map generation device" was invented by Nobuyuki Matsuno (Tokyo), Fukukazu Kawata (Nagoya, Japan) and Kazuhito Tanaka (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A localization system includes: a first data acquisition unit that acquires map data for map creation in a plurality of different time zones; a candidate creation unit that creates the maps based on the map data acquired by the first data acquisition unit, and combines the created maps to create a plurality of synthetic map candidates; ...