US Patent Issued to Beljing Jingdong Qianshi Technology on July 22 for "System and method for detecting road intersection on point cloud height map" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,660, issued on July 22, was assigned to Beljing Jingdong Qianshi Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"System and method for detecting road intersection on point cloud height map" was invented by Yin Xia (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for autonomous navigation. The system includes a computing device having a processor and a storage device storing computer executable code. The computer executable code, when executed at the processor, is configured to: provide a three dimensional (3D) point cloud; generate a two dimensional (2D) height map of the 3D point cloud in a region of interest; generate norm...