Distributed sensing for vehicle navigation

This invention describes a system where vehicles share information from their sensors about objects around them. This shared data is used to build a collective understanding of the environment, specifically focusing on detecting new obstacles or changes to the terrain like rocks or debris. This updated environmental picture then helps individual vehicles plan their navigation.

Why it matters: Since 2020, advancements in AI for real-time object detection and scene understanding, combined with maturing V2X communication, make it more practical to aggregate and process diverse sensor data from multiple vehicles to dynamically update shared maps with transient hazards. This directly addresses the invention's core challenge of collaborative environmental awareness for navigation.

Status: Not in forceListed as no longer active. The specific reason is not in the record we hold.
How hard to build: SpecializedDistributed software, sensor fusion, AI perception

3 AI reinvention directions for this patent

See all three

AI gives you a few directions you could take this. Pick one, and we check whether your version is different enough to patent, then write the filing.

Reinvent this with AI

Where this one came from

Every morning we go through millions of abandoned patents and pick out 15 worth your time. This was one of today’s.

This one

+10