ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,555, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Beijing Tusen Weilal Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for positioning movable device, and movable device" was invented by Yong Xu (Beijing) and Nan Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to autonomous driving technology, and provides a method and an apparatus for positioning a movable device, as well as a movable device. The method includes: obtaining point cloud data for a predetermined area above the movable device; extracting, from the point cloud data, a first type of point cloud and a second type of point cloud on a left side and a r...