US Patent Issued to Zoox on July 8 for "Lidar debris detection based on annotated image data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,903, issued on July 8, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Lidar debris detection based on annotated image data" was invented by Robert Evan Mahieu (San Mateo, Calif.), David Pfeiffer (Foster City, Calif.) and Zeng Wang (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for identifying lidar points associated with static objects, and using such lidar points to annotate objects within two-dimensional images are discussed herein. In some examples, an object manager may receive accumulations of lidar data captured from lidar devices of a vehicle while traversing within a driving environment. In some examples, th...