US Patent Issued to Waymo on May 27 for "Performing point cloud tasks using multi-scale features generated through self-attention" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,083, issued on May 27, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Performing point cloud tasks using multi-scale features generated through self-attention" was invented by Pei Sun (Palo Alto, Calif.), Mingxing Tan (Newark, Calif.), Weiyue Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Fei Xia (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zhaoqi Leng (Milpitas, Calif.), Dragomir Anguelov (San Francisco) and Chenxi Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for processing point clouds using neural networks to perform a machine learning task. In one aspect, a system comprises one or more computers configured to obtain a set of p...