US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 29 for "Identification of planar points in lidar point cloud obtained with vehicle lidar system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,660, issued on July 29, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Identification of planar points in lidar point cloud obtained with vehicle lidar system" was invented by Yao Hu (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Xinyu Du (Oakland Township, Mich.), Wende Zhang (Birmingham, Mich.) and Hao Yu (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system in a vehicle includes a lidar system to transmit incident light and receive reflections from one or more objects as a point cloud of points. The system also includes processing circuitry to identify feature points among the points of the point cloud, the feature points being horizo...