US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Feb. 10 for "Identification of edge points and planar points in point cloud obtained by vehicle lidar system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,242, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Identification of edge points and planar points in point cloud obtained by vehicle lidar system" was invented by Yao Hu (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Xinyu Du (Oakland Township, Mich.), Wende Zhang (Birmingham, Mich.) and Hao Yu (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system in a vehicle includes a lidar system to transmit incident light and receive reflections from one or more objects as a point cloud of points. The system also includes processing circuitry to identify feature points among the points of the point cloud using principal componen...