US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on Aug. 19 for "Method for deriving surface material properties of surface materials based upon LIDAR data, computing system and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,876, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Method for deriving surface material properties of surface materials based upon LIDAR data, computing system and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Richard Stenson (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a method for deriving a surface absorption property of a surface material from LIDAR data. The method may include receiving cloud points from a LIDAR sensor. The cloud points are characterized by intensity values corresponding to reflections off the surface material of a real-world object and respective...