US Patent Issued to DEKA Products on March 24 for "System and method for managing free space estimation" (New Hampshire, California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,998, issued on March 24, was assigned to DEKA Products LP (Manchester, N.H.).

"System and method for managing free space estimation" was invented by Abhishek Ravi (Manchester, N.H.), Gregory J. Buitkus (North Andover, Mass.), Sai Ravi Teja Boggavarapu (Manchester, N.H.), Raajitha Gummadi (Manchester, N.H.), Derek Kane (Manchester, N.H.) and Yu-Hsuan Chang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for estimating free space and assigning free space probabilities in point cloud data associated with an autonomous vehicle traveling on a surface, including taking into account sensor noise, sensor availability...