ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,404, issued on May 13, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Pittsburgh).
"Ground intensity LIDAR localizer" was invented by Peter Hansen (Pittsburgh) and Hatem Alismail (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining a pose of a vehicle and building maps from vehicle priors processes received ground intensity LIDAR data including intensity data for points believed to be on the ground and height information to form ground intensity LIDAR (GIL) images including pixels in 2D coordinates where each pixel contains an intensity value, a height value, and x- and y-gradients of intensity and height. The GIL images are ...