US Patent Issued to Motional on April 15 for "Systems and methods for implementing occlusion representations over road features" (American, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,514, issued on April 15, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Systems and methods for implementing occlusion representations over road features" was invented by Yifan Yang (Pittsburgh), Scott D. Pendleton (Singapore) and Giancarlo Baldan (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among other things, techniques are described for implementing occlusion representations over road features. In general, one innovative aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include: obtaining area information of at least one area of interest for a vehicle, identifying occlusion data associate...