US Patent Issued to Motional on Nov. 25 for "Vehicle operation using a dynamic occupancy grid" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,422, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Vehicle operation using a dynamic occupancy grid" was invented by Dmytro S. Yershov (Boston) and Matthias Sapuan (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for operating a vehicle in an environment include receiving light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data from a LiDAR of the vehicle. The LiDAR data represents objects located in the environment. A dynamic occupancy grid (DOG) is generated based on a semantic map. The DOG includes multiple grid cells. Each grid cell represents a portion of the environment. For each grid cell, a probability density function is ge...