US Patent Issued to Five AI on Aug. 25 for "Lidar mapping" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,401, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Five AI Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Lidar mapping" was invented by William Froom (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method for updating an accumulated 3D map are disclosed. A current point cloud is received, which is an untwisted lidar point cloud captured over a current interval, each point in the current point cloud associated with feature data indicating a feature type of each point of the current point cloud. Respective subsets of the current point cloud are provided to a plurality of processing threads, wherein each processing thread operates on its po...