US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on June 16 for "Physics-based modeling of rain and snow effects in virtual LiDAR" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,468, issued on June 16, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Physics-based modeling of rain and snow effects in virtual LiDAR" was invented by Wei Zeng (Oakland Township, Mich.), Shuqing Zeng (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Huabing Zhu (Troy, Mich.) and Jordan B. Chipka (Commerce Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of modeling precipitation effects in a virtual LiDAR sensor, the method includes receiving a point cloud model representing three-dimensional coordinates of objects as the objects would be sensed by a LiDAR sensor. The method further includes generating a stochastic model of rainfa...