US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on June 23 for "Detecting phantom objects in ranging sensor data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,524, issued on June 23, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Detecting phantom objects in ranging sensor data" was invented by Siyuan Lu (San Mateo, Calif.), Sijia Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Keren Ye (Foster City, Calif.) and Xianming Liu (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Object detection for ranging sensor data may detect objects which are not actually present in the environment. To identify certain of these phantom objects, objects detected in the environment are analyzed to determine whether they are enclosed by another object and if the enclosed object has a distance from the ranging sensor hig...