US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on Sept. 29 for "Longitudinal bias correction in autonomous vehicles" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,213, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Longitudinal bias correction in autonomous vehicles" was invented by Dung-Han Lee (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes obtaining a LIDAR scan including a plurality of LIDAR points. The LIDAR scan being descriptive of an environment of an autonomous vehicle. The method includes obtaining a surfel map descriptive of the environment. The surfel map includes a plurality of surfels. The method includes classifying each of the plurality of LIDAR points as an explained LIDAR point or an unexplained LIDAR point based on an alignmen...