US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 30 for "Apparatus and method for updating map and non-transitory computer-readable medium containing computer program for updating map" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,354, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Apparatus and method for updating map and non-transitory computer-readable medium containing computer program for updating map" was invented by Mamoru Tsukamoto (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for updating a map detects a feature in an area around a vehicle traveling on a road from situation data representing the situation around the vehicle, and updates a lane network representing a connection relationship between lanes included in road sections into which the road is divided. The lane network is stored in a storage unit and ...