ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,765, issued on May 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Method and system for localization of an autonomous vehicle in real-time" was invented by Yuan Ren (Thornhill, Canada) and Bingbing Liu (Markham, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for localization of an autonomous vehicle in real-time disclosed. A particle filter process is used to generate an estimate of a pose of the autonomous vehicle based on a three-dimensional point cloud, a two-dimensional (2D) feature map and odometry data. A location of the autonomous vehicle in the environment is generated comprising a final pose...