ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,705, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Semantic segmentation of three-dimensional data" was invented by Chris Jia-Han Zhang (Mississauga, Canada), Wenjie Luo (Toronto) and Raquel Urtasun (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing semantic segmentation of three-dimensional data are provided. In one example embodiment, a computing system can be configured to obtain sensor data including three-dimensional data associated with an environment. The three-dimensional data can include a plurality of points and can be associated with one or more times. The computing system...