ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,403, issued on May 13, was assigned to Aeva Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Techniques for point cloud processing utilizing point indices" was invented by Khachatur Armenyan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Youye Xie (Mountain View, Calif.), Jose Krause Perin (Mountain View, Calif.) and Amol Gole (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores a plurality of data points and stores instructions that cause the LIDAR system to: generate the plurality of data points associated with one or more return beams corresponding to one or more optical beams t...