ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,426, issued on May 5, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).
"Autonomous docking system for freight trucks" was invented by Subrata Kumar Kundu (Canton, Mich.), Haruki Matono (Novi, Mich.), Xiaoliang Zhu (Northville, Mich.) and Akshay Gokhale (Northville, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous docking systems and methods receive asynchronous images from a vehicle-mounted camera and a plurality of infrastructure cameras and perform object mapping to determine candidate routes leading to a docking station. Candidate routes are divided into route segments for which disparity map quality scores are estimated to select a navigation ...