US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for localizing an autonomous vehicle" (Utah, Washington, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,106, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods for localizing an autonomous vehicle" was invented by James Jackson (Fruit Heights, Utah), Daniel Koch (Wexford, Pa.), Michael Samples (Redmond, Wash.), David Wheeler (Pittsburgh) and Robert Zlot (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system can obtain, through one or more sensor systems onboard an autonomous vehicle, a motion input, a surface element registration input representing one or more tracked surface elements, and a lane alignment input representing one or more lane boundaries. The computing system can provide t...