US Patent Issued to Volkswagen Group of America Investments on July 8 for "Lane segment clustering using hybrid distance metrics" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,205, issued on July 8, was assigned to Volkswagen Group of America Investments LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Lane segment clustering using hybrid distance metrics" was invented by Andrew Hartnett (West Hartford, Conn.), George Peter Kenneth Carr (Allison Park, Pa.) and Nikolai Popov (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for clustering lane segments of a roadway in order to improve and simplify autonomous vehicle behavior testing. The approaches disclosed herein provide a hybrid methodology of dividing lane segments into hard features and soft features, and using a me...