US Patent Issued to BAIDU USA, APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) on Dec. 16 for "Cloud based scanning for detection of sensors malfunction for autonomous vehicles" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,469, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to BAIDU USA LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Cloud based scanning for detection of sensors malfunction for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Tianjia Sun (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Weiliang Sun (Beijing), Yaoming Shen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shuli Yin (Beijing) and Baoping Yuan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a system obtains first point cloud data generated by a first scanner device of a first autonomous driving vehicle (ADV). The system applies one or more abnormality detection algorithms to the first ...