US Patent Issued to Kodiak Robotics on Oct. 14 for "Systems and methods for detecting water along driving routes" (Utah, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,325, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Kodiak Robotics Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for detecting water along driving routes" was invented by Laura W. Shane (Park City, Utah) and Suzanne L. Woll (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining a degree of wetness of a road surface from Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) point clouds are provided. The method comprises generating, using a LiDAR system, at least one point cloud, wherein the LiDAR system comprises a processor, and, using the processor, identifying and isolating one or more road surface points within a point clo...