US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on Nov. 25 for "Pipeline for generating synthetic point cloud data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,722, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Pipeline for generating synthetic point cloud data" was invented by Hongge Chen (Mountain View, Calif.), Zhao Chen (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yuning Chai (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides solutions for generating synthetic three-dimensional (3D) objects for testing autonomous vehicle (AV) object detectors, such as AV Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) detectors. A process of the disclosed technology can include steps for receiving a first set of object shape data corresponding to a baseline object, permut...