ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,231, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).
"Thermal sensor data vehicle perception" was invented by Bence Cserna (East Boston, Mass.), Aravindkumar Vijayalingam (Singapore) and Ruben Strenzke (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for thermal sensor data vehicle perception, which can include obtaining thermal sensor data, obtaining non-thermal sensor data, and determining, based on the thermal sensor data and the non-thermal sensor data, a perception parameter indicative of an object. Some methods described also include generating a trajectory for an autonomous vehicle. Systems and compute...