US Patent Issued to Intelligent Fusion Technology on Dec. 30 for "Method, device and system of point cloud compression for intelligent cooperative perception system" (Maryland, Virginia, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,787, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Intelligent Fusion Technology Inc. (Germantown, Md.).

"Method, device and system of point cloud compression for intelligent cooperative perception system" was invented by Qi Zhao (Germantown, Md.), Yi Li (Germantown, Md.), Xin Tian (Germantown, Md.), Genshe Chen (Germantown, Md.), Erik Blasch (Arlington, Va.) and Khanh Pham (Kirtland, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for point cloud compression of an intelligent cooperative perception (iCOOPER) for autonomous air vehicles (AAVs) includes: receiving a sequence of consecutive point clouds; identifying a key point cloud (K-frame) from ...