US Patent Issued to Waymo on April 8 for "Point cloud segmentation using a coherent lidar for autonomous vehicle applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,914, issued on April 8, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Point cloud segmentation using a coherent lidar for autonomous vehicle applications" was invented by Nicholas Armstrong-Crews (Mountain View, Calif.), Mingcheng Chen (Mountain View, Calif.) and Xiaoxiang Hu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects and implementations of the present disclosure address shortcomings of the existing technology by enabling Doppler-assisted segmentation of points in a point cloud for efficient object identification and tracking in autonomous vehicle (AV) applications, by: obtaining, by a sensing system of the A...