ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,651, issued on June 3, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).
"Localization functional safety" was invented by Stephen L. Thomas (Cheswick, Pa.) and Chaitanya Shinde (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for localization functional safety, which can include systems, methods, and computer program products are also provided. In examples, a method includes applying a transform to a source point cloud and calculating a second metric based on the application of the transform to the source point cloud and a map at a higher ASIL level. A first metric is determined based on a localization function that executes at...