US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN, DR. ING. H.C.F. PORSCHE, AUDI on March 25 for "System, method, and components utilizing live point cloud compression" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,496, issued on March 25, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Germany), DR. ING. H.C.F. PORSCHE AG (Germany) and AUDI AG (Germany).

"System, method, and components utilizing live point cloud compression" was invented by Jerramy Lee Gipson (Willits, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for point cloud data compression including a LiDAR sensor and a compression circuit. The compression circuit receives data for rays from the LiDAR sensor, wherein the data is arranged in cells which map to corresponding rays, and each cell includes a range value. The compression circuit constructs a frame for the received data and, for each cell, d...