ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,630, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne-Billancourt, France).
"Method of road detection for an automotive vehicle fitted with a LIDAR sensor" was invented by Farouk Ghallabi (Massy, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road detection method for a motor vehicle provided with at least one rotary multilayer LIDAR sensor and at least one data processor includes acquiring LIDAR data of the environment of the vehicle. The data for which the angle of the beam with respect to the plane of the vehicle is greater than or equal to zero are eliminated from the acquired LIDAR data. For each LIDAR datum, theoretical coor...