US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on June 23 for "Sensor fusion for dynamic mapping" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,288, issued on June 23, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sensor fusion for dynamic mapping" was invented by Zhenchun Xia (San Jose, Calif.) and Kuen Yehliu (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A local computing device receives lidar data and radar data from one or more road side units (RSUs). The local computing device performs ground plane removal based on range to detect targets and perform local sensor fusion. The local computing device may use a global nearest neighbor (GNN) algorithm and a Kalman filter. The local computing device may create an HD map or the data may be brought together with other ...