US Patent Issued to Volkswagen Group of America Investments on May 13 for "Simulation platform for vector map live updates" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,150, issued on May 13, was assigned to Volkswagen Group of America Investments LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Simulation platform for vector map live updates" was invented by Timothy James Douglas (Pittsburgh), Patrick Barone (San Francisco) and Timothy Cummings (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product aspects for simulating map update functions in an autonomous vehicle (AV) system. The system can create a simulation environment to test the AV system using data collected during regular operations of the AV system. The data comprises (1) map updating documents from a cloud servi...