US Patent Issued to Motional on March 24 for "Streaming object detection and segmentation with polar pillars" (California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,464, issued on March 24, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Streaming object detection and segmentation with polar pillars" was invented by Sourabh Vora (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) and Qi Chen (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among other things, techniques for detecting objects in the environment surrounding a vehicle are described. A computer system is configured to receive a set of measurements from a sensor of a vehicle. The set of measurements includes a plurality of data points that represent a plurality of objects in a 3D space surrounding the vehicle. The system divides the 3D space into a plurality of pillars. ...