ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,212, issued on July 15, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Radar-based ground plane characteristic determination" was invented by Patrick Blaes (Redwood City, Calif.) and Badeea Ferdaous Alferdaous Alazem (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for estimating a ground plane based on lidar data and/or attributes of the ground plane are discussed herein. A vehicle captures radar data, e.g., 4D radar data including height information, as it traverses an environment. The radar data can include direct returns from an object and reflected or multipath returns, e.g., that reflect off a ground surface a...