ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,514, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Glass detection using lidar" was invented by Prakriti Chintalapoodi (San Jose, Calif.), Rui Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Eric Foxlin (Belmont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a system for improving navigation by detecting glass surfaces. For example, the system may build an occupancy map representing objects present in an environment. The system performs additional processing to input scan data in order to detect glass surfaces and distinguish these glass surfaces from other obstacles. As glass is only detected within a narrow rang...