US Patent Issued to Motional on Oct. 21 for "Automatic lane marking extraction and classification from lidar scans" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,918, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Automatic lane marking extraction and classification from lidar scans" was invented by Dhananjai Sharma (Singapore), Venice Erin Baylon Liong (Singapore), Sergi Adipraja Widjaja (Singapore) and Edouard Francois Marc Capellier (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods, systems, and computer program products for generating an output map indicating a likelihood of individual elements of an image as corresponding to particular road elements, such as lane dividers, road dividers, and road boundaries. An example method may include applying a machine lea...