US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on Nov. 18 for "Techniques for non-uniform LIDAR beam detection distance adjustment in an autonomous vehicle simulation environment" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,478, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Techniques for non-uniform LIDAR beam detection distance adjustment in an autonomous vehicle simulation environment" was invented by Richard Stenson (Miami), Nivedita Chandrasekaran (San Francisco) and Amin Aghaei (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for simulating LIDAR data are described. In one embodiment, a method for simulating LIDAR data may include retrieving a simulated scene that simulates a real-world scene, the simulated scene including at least one target object having a reflectivity r and located at a range R from a LID...