US Patent Issued to Zoox on Nov. 18 for "System for aligning sensor data with maps comprising covariances" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,580, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"System for aligning sensor data with maps comprising covariances" was invented by Patrick Blaes (Redwood City, Calif.), Michael Carsten Bosse (Cupertino, Calif.), Elena Stephanie Stumm (San Francisco), Derek Adams (Pasadena, Calif.) and Brice Rebsamen (Aix-en-Provence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for integrating sensor data into a scene or map based on statistical data of captured environmental data are discussed herein. The data may be stored as a multi-resolution voxel space and the techniques may comprise first applying a pre-alignment o...