ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,462, issued on July 22, was assigned to Volkswagen Group of America Investments LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Validating high definition mapping data" was invented by Ryan Waskiewicz (Pittsburgh), Brad Krupa (Pittsburgh), Mark Theodore Tomczak (Pittsburgh) and Daniel Scott Fitzpatrick (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system and method embodiments to implement a validation of a vector map. The validation process may merge proposed and persisted high-definition mapping data, evaluate the high-definition mapping data with a set of customizable validation rules, return/persist validation results, and provide a means ...