US Patent Issued to Denso International America, Denso on Sept. 16 for "Systems and methods for enhancing outputs of a LiDAR" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,726, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Denso International America Inc. (Southfield, Mich.) and Denso Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Systems and methods for enhancing outputs of a LiDAR" was invented by Prasanna Kumar Sivakumar (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to enhancing an output of a LiDAR sensor. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring, using the LiDAR sensor, a point cloud and an ambient image. The method includes processing the point cloud and the ambient image to generate enhanced data according to an enhancer pipeline that includes a set of proce...