US Patent Issued to Volvo Car on March 4 for "Ensemble learning for cross-range 3D object detection in driver assist and autonomous driving systems" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,158, issued on March 4, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Sweden, Sweden).

"Ensemble learning for cross-range 3D object detection in driver assist and autonomous driving systems" was invented by Saudin Botonjic (Gothenburg, Sweden), Sihao Ding (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ying Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Cheng Zhang (Columbus, Ohio) and Oskar Karnblad (Vastra Gotaland, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cross-range 3D object detection method and system operable for training a 3D object detection model with N sub-groups of a point cloud corresponding to N detection distance ranges to form N 3D object detection models forming an ensemble 3D ob...