US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on June 3 for "Method and system for vehicle odometry using coherent range doppler optical sensors" (Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,898, issued on June 3, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Method and system for vehicle odometry using coherent range doppler optical sensors" was invented by Devlin Baker (Bozeman, Mont.) and James Curry (Bozeman, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for vehicle odometry using coherent range Doppler optical sensors. The system and method includes operating a Doppler light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system to collect raw point cloud data that indicates for a point a plurality of dimensions, wherein a dimension of the plurality of dimensions includes an inclination angle, an azimuthal angle, a ...