US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on Sept. 1 for "Empirically modeling effect of fog on LiDAR data" (California, Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,133, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Empirically modeling effect of fog on LiDAR data" was invented by Ryan Suess (Seattle), Guy Satat (Natick, Mass.) and Michael Shagam (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of simulating an effect of fog on a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensor are disclosed. The method includes the steps of determining whether a target is present within the field-of-view (FOV) of the LiDAR sensor, determining a fog probability density function (PDFfog) vs range, modifying, if a target is present within the FOV, the PDFfog to account for ...