US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 12 for "System for localizing three-dimensional objects" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,666, issued on May 12, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System for localizing three-dimensional objects" was invented by Nikolaus Jonathan Mitchell (Atlanta) and Yong-Dian Jian (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for localizing three-dimensional objects relative to a vehicle. The system includes: at least one sensor for generating two-dimensional (2D) data and a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud of an environment external to a vehicle. The 3D point cloud includes object points associated with a stationary traffi...