US Patent Issued on July 14 for "Loop closure using multi-modal sensor data" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,488, issued on July 14.

"Loop closure using multi-modal sensor data" was invented by Narayanan Ramanathan (Chantilly, Va.), Timon Meyer (Centreville, Va.), Glenn Toumier (Vienna, Va.), Donald Gerard Madden (Columbia, Md.) and Aditya Shiwaji Rasam (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for obtaining a sample Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) profile generated by a drone; selecting a reference position based on the sample LIDAR profile; determining a LIDAR profile-based translation and rotation relative to a reference LIDAR profile of...