ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,213, issued on July 15, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Semantic segmentation of aggregated sensor data" was invented by Soroush Dean Khadem (San Francisco) and Derek Xiang Ma (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for segmenting and classifying a representation of aggregated sensor data from a scene are discussed herein. Sensor data may be collected during multiple traversals of a same scene, and the sensor data may be filtered to remove portions of the sensor data not relevant to road network maps. In some examples, the filtered data may be aggregated and represented in voxels of a three-dim...