US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Nov. 25 for "Landmark perception for localization in autonomous systems and applications" (Utah, California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,118, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Landmark perception for localization in autonomous systems and applications" was invented by Joshua Edward Abbott (Draper, Utah), Amir Akbarzadeh (San Jose, Calif.), Joachim Pehserl (Lynnwood, Wash.), Samuel Ogden (Duvall, Wash.), David Wehr (Redmond, Wash.) and Ke Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, perception of landmark shapes may be used for localization in autonomous systems and applications. In some embodiments, a deep neural network (DNN) is used to generate (e.g., per-point) classifications of measured 3D point...