ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,878, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods for dynamic object removal from three-dimensional data" was invented by Ricson Cheng (Bridgewater, N.J.), Adam Wlodzimierz Harley (Pittsburgh), Justin Liang (Toronto), Xinchen Yan (San Mateo, Calif.), Raquel Urtasun (Toronto) and Mehmet Ersin Yumer (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating simulation data based on real-world environments are provided. A method includes obtaining multi-modal sensor data indicative of a dynamic object within an environment of a robotic platform. The multi-modal sens...