ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,579, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Aligning data for mapping" was invented by Elena Stephanie Stumm (San Francisco), Michael Carsten Bosse (Templeton, Calif.) and Veeresh Taranalli (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for modifying a factor associated with an invalid point cloud registration (e.g., alignment) between two data sets, to improve a map generation process. A computing system receives sensor data from a vehicle traversing an environment. The computing system aligns discrete data sets, such as to generate a representation of the environment based on...