US Patent Issued to Aurora Operations on Aug. 19 for "Localization methods and architectures for a trailer of an autonomous tractor-trailer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,897, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Localization methods and architectures for a trailer of an autonomous tractor-trailer" was invented by Yekeun Jeong (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Abhay Vardhan (Redwood City, Calif.) and Adam Richard Williams (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for localization of a trailer of an autonomous tractor-trailer are described herein. Some implementations can determine a sector area in an environment of the autonomous tractor-trailer that is predicted to include the trailer, determine a subset of an LIDAR data that is generated by L...