US Patent Issued to Zoox on Sept. 9 for "Lidar sensor denoising for adverse conditions and/or nonsalient objects" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,247, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Lidar sensor denoising for adverse conditions and/or nonsalient objects" was invented by Nehemia Girma Terefe (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Particulate matter, such as fog, snow, rain, steam, vehicle exhaust, debris (plastic bags), etc. may cause one or more sensor types to generate false positive solid surface detections. In particular, various depth measurements may be impeded by particulate matter. Identifying false positive return(s) may comprise clustering lidar points, determining differences in range indicated by two different lida...