US Patent Issued to PACCAR on March 3 for "Localization from specular constellations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,245, issued on March 3, was assigned to PACCAR Inc (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Localization from specular constellations" was invented by Robert Wesley Murrish (Santa Clara, Calif.), Brandon Leobardo Racca (Mountain View, Calif.) and Haris Ashraf (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Localization of a vehicle based at least in part on a map of reflective objects having specular reflectivity. A specular constellation map generation system and method are used to create a mapping of location, orientation, and reflectivity values of reflective objects in a driving surface. A specular constellation localization system and method collec...