Patents by Inventor Michael Mink

Michael Mink has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250164280
    Abstract: Incremental updates are used for versioning digital road maps. A base map is provide. A hash function is applied to the base map to generate a version hash of the base map. Map difference bundles are provided, a map difference bundle includes at least one individual change of a map feature. The digital road map is versioned by forming at least one continuous version chain, beginning with the base map. To generate a current map version, a map difference bundle to be applied is linked to the map version in the version chain before the current map version. For this the version hash of the previous map version and the map difference bundle to be applied are input into the hash function as input parameters to generate a version hash for the current map version.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas MONNINGER, Mario ALEKSIC, Alexander BRACHT, Peter HURT, Anja SEVERIN, Michael MINK, Maximilian HARR, Roland ORTLOFF, Michael HENZLER
  • Publication number: 20240194058
    Abstract: A system can perform a method that includes receiving sensor data from a subset of human-driven vehicles that have moved through an intersection in a region, where the sensor data indicates a respective set of trajectories of respective human-driven vehicles of the subset through the intersection. The method can further include processing the sensor data to classify driving behavior of each human-driven vehicle of the subset of human-driven vehicles through the intersection. The method can further include classifying the intersection to label an autonomy map to include pass-through information for at least one of autonomous vehicles or semi-autonomous vehicles driving through the intersection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas Monninger, Anja Severin, Mario Aleksic, Alexander Bracht, Michael Henzler, Michael Mink, Tobias Mahler, Roland Ortloff, Andreas Silvius Weber
  • Publication number: 20240182064
    Abstract: A computing system can receive sensor data from a set of human-driven vehicles operating through a road segment. The system can process the sensor data to determine a set of right-of-way rules for autonomous vehicle driving through the road segment. In certain examples, the system can obtain an autonomous driving map utilized by autonomous vehicles for operating through the road segment, and modify the autonomous driving map to include the set of right-of-way rules for the road segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas Monninger, Anja Severin, Mario Aleksic, Alexander Bracht, Michael Henzler, Michael Mink, Tobias Mahler, Roland Ortloff, Andreas Silvius Weber