ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,228, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Radar-inertial odometry for autonomous ground vehicles" was invented by Andrew J. Kramer (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous ground vehicles that are outfitted with radar sensors and inertial measurement units accurately determine states of the autonomous ground vehicles, e.g., estimates of the vehicles' positions, orientations, or velocities or accelerations along or about one or more axes, based on data captured by the radar sensors and the inertial measurement units. Where objects are detected in radar scans, the objects are determined to be ...