ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,427, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).
"Curb-based feature extraction for localization and lane detection using radar" was invented by Kiat Choon Teo (Singapore) and Sankara Mangaiahgari (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods, systems, and computer program products for lane keep tracking and/or localization of a vehicle using a radar to detect metallic particles in paint applied to lane markings or curb markings. An example method may include: causing a radar system of a vehicle to output radio waves; receiving a radar image from the radar system corresponding to returned radio waves...