US Patent Issued to Waymo on May 13 for "False positive object removal with surfel maps" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,400, issued on May 13, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"False positive object removal with surfel maps" was invented by Xiaoxiang Hu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Clayton Kunz (Mill Valley, Calif.), David Gallup (Bothell, Wash.) and Grigory Dzhavadyan (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using a surfel map to predict reflections in an environment. One of the methods includes receiving a surfel map comprising a plurality of surfels, wherein each surfel corresponds to a respective different location in an environment. Sens...