ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,956, issued on April 7, was assigned to Autonomous A2Z (Gyeongsan-si, South Korea).
"Method for providing information on rainy environment by referring to point data acquired from a LiDAR sensor and computing device using the same" was invented by Jungdae Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Youngchul Oh (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Ji Hyeong Han (Anyang-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods disclosed herein provide rainy environmental information by, on condition that a detection area is determined as an area of within a specific distance from a LiDAR sensor mounted on an autonomous vehicle, and laser transmission pulses...