US Patent Issued to Woven By Toyota on Jan. 13 for "System and method for generating a semantic map for a road" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,493, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Woven By Toyota Inc. (Tokyo).

"System and method for generating a semantic map for a road" was invented by Alexander Christoph Schaefer (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to generating a semantic map for a road portion. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving sensor data related to a road portion. The sensor data includes trace points and key points associated with the trace points. The trace points are related to positions of a vehicle in the road portion and the key points are related to lane boundaries. The m...