US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of Michigan on Jan. 13 for "Energy efficient sampling for last-mile delivery systems" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,475, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Energy efficient sampling for last-mile delivery systems" was invented by Tayo Fabusuyi (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Majid Mirzanezhad (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is presented for determining sampling rate for at least one of a camera and a receiver of a global navigation satellite system deployed in an autonomous vehicle. A Kalman filter is used for predicting a local sampling rate for the camera and a global sampling rate for the receiver in the global navigation satellite system. The m...