US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on Oct. 14 for "Vision-aided inertial navigation system for ground vehicle localization" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,638, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Vision-aided inertial navigation system for ground vehicle localization" was invented by Stergios I. Roumeliotis (St. Paul, Minn.), Kejian J. Wu (Minneapolis) and Chao Guo (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vision-aided inertial navigation system (VINS) comprises an image source for producing image data along a trajectory. The VINS further comprises an inertial measurement unit (IMU) configured to produce IMU data indicative of motion of the VINS and an odometry unit configured to produce odometry data. The VINS further comprises...