US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Visual odometry for operating a movable device" (Michigan, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,774, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Visual odometry for operating a movable device" was invented by Shenbagaraj Kannapiran (Tempe, Ariz.), Nalin Bendapudi (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Devarth Parikh (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Ankit Girish Vora (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer that includes a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions executable by the processor to select first side stereo images of first and second pairs of stereo images acquired at first and second time steps, respectively, and mask first and second first side stereo images, determine...