ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,625, issued on March 25, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Voxel based multiresolution ground plane detection" was invented by Robert Evan Mahieu (San Mateo, Calif.) and Zeng Wang (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining ground surface voxels based on multiresolution planes are discussed herein. Such multiresolution planes may be generated, validated, and used to connect voxels associated with the ground. In some examples, a vehicle may use capture or otherwise receive lidar data while traversing within a driving environment. The vehicle may associate the lidar data with a voxel s...