US Patent Issued to Zoox on March 18 for "Mirror object detection based on clustering of sensor data" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,607, issued on March 18, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Mirror object detection based on clustering of sensor data" was invented by Nehemia Girma Terefe (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to detecting mirrored lidar returns and modifying lidar data using clustering techniques. In some examples, lidar data including a set of lidar points may be captured by a vehicle operating in an environment. The vehicle may combine the lidar data from numerous lidar devices to have a common frame of reference. In some examples, the vehicle may determine a cluster of the lidar points based...