ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,031, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Volvo Autonomous Solutions AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Mapping method for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Simon Geiger (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When an autonomous vehicle plans a new drive mission in a confined area, a first set of environmental information, and after a time interval, a second set of environmental information, are obtained by a device flying above a confined area including the departure point and the destination point of the vehicle, each set of environmental information including locations and geometries of objects in the confined area. Then, an object...