ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,684, issued on July 22, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).
"Identifying objects using LiDAR" was invented by Venice Erin Baylon Liong (Singapore) and Tho Thi Ngoc Nguyen (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among other things, techniques are described for controlling, using a control circuit, motion of a vehicle based objects identified using LiDAR. For example, respective classes of points of a point cloud are determined, and based on the determined respective classes of the points of the point cloud, objects in the vicinity of the vehicle are identified."
The patent was filed on Oct. 18, 2021, under Application No. 17/...