US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on June 30 for "Fiducial-based lidar malfunction detection for autonomous motile devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,592, issued on June 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Fiducial-based lidar malfunction detection for autonomous motile devices" was invented by Srinivasa Varadan Rajagopalan (Milpitas, Calif.), Casey Kute Schulz (San Jose, Calif.), Chen Wang (Fremont, Calif.), Daimian Wang (Fremont, Calif.), Rui Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Lei Zhu (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous motile device (AMD) may include a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) subsystem that is usable for floor detection. The LIDAR subsystem may include a LIDAR component and a fiducial disposed in a path of light emitted by ...