ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,537, issued on July 15, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).
"Navigation with drivable area detection" was invented by Zhuang Jie Chong (Singapore) and Ning Wu (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enclosed are embodiments for navigation with drivable area detection. In an embodiment, a method comprises: receiving a point cloud from a depth sensor, receiving image data from a camera; predicting at least one label indicating a drivable area by applying machine learning to the image data; labeling the point cloud using the at least one label; obtaining odometry information; generating a drivable area by registering the labeled...