US Patent Issued to Scythe Robotics on May 27 for "Method and apparatus for modeling an environment proximate an autonomous system" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,283, issued on May 27, was assigned to Scythe Robotics Inc. (Longmont, Colo.).

"Method and apparatus for modeling an environment proximate an autonomous system" was invented by Andres Leonardo Milioto (Thornton, Colo.), Nicholas Stephen Peretti (Boulder, Colo.) and Kevin Eliot Stone (Westminster, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for modeling the environment proximate an autonomous system. The method and apparatus accesses vision data, assigns semantic labels to points in the vision data, processes points that are identified as being a drivable surface (ground) and performs an optimization over the identifie...