US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on July 8 for "Ground segmentation through super voxel" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,277, issued on July 8, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Ground segmentation through super voxel" was invented by Zhanping Xu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kartheek Chandu (Dublin, Calif.), Glenn D. Sweeney (Sebastopol, Calif.) and Robert Vets (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for performing ground segmentation through formation of a single super voxel. Image data tracking a surface as an object moves relative to the surface is accessed. Samples of the image data is grouped into different subsets to form a plurality of subsets...