US Patent Issued to Woven By Toyota on Jan. 13 for "Map data compression methods implementing machine learning" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,478, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Woven By Toyota Inc. (Tokyo).

"Map data compression methods implementing machine learning" was invented by Michael J. Benisch (Menlo Park, Calif.) and James J. Kuffner (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for training a machine-learning model to compress map data for use online by an autonomous vehicle and techniques for compressing map data using the trained machine-learning model. A system includes a computing device configured to deploy a simulation environment initiating an instance of a virtual vehicle, execute iterations of ...