US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on Dec. 9 for "Free space detection and park-able free space detection for occupancy grids using sensor measurements" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,068, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Free space detection and park-able free space detection for occupancy grids using sensor measurements" was invented by Gunawath Dilshan Godaliyadda (Allen, Texas), Vijay Kumar Pothukuchi (Allen, Texas) and Do-Kyoung Kwon (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples provide for computer executable instructions executable by a processor to configure the processor to determine an occupancy status of cells of a region of interest by, for a first cell of the region of interest, determining whether the first cell is free by setting a free space flag for the fi...