ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,636, issued on July 21, was assigned to BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for detecting operating terrain, and engineering equipment for detecting operating terrain" was invented by Zhenpeng He (Beijing), Lingfeng Qian (Beijing) and Liangjun Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting an operating terrain is provided. The method includes obtaining point cloud data of an operating region that are collected by a laser radar at a current time, including three-dimensional coordinates of a plurality of sampling points. The operating region is divided into a plurality...