US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on Jan. 27 for "Control of autonomous vehicle based on environmental object classification determined using phase coherent LIDAR data" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,594, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Control of autonomous vehicle based on environmental object classification determined using phase coherent LIDAR data" was invented by Warren Smith (McKees Rocks, Pa.), Ethan Eade (Pittsburgh), Sterling J. Anderson (Sunnyvale, Calif.), James Andrew Bagnell (Pittsburgh), Bartholomeus C. Nabbe (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Christopher Paul Urmson (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Determining classification(s) for object(s) in an environment of autonomous vehicle, and controlling the vehicle based on the determined classification(s). For e...