US Patent Issued to Pony AI on Aug. 11 for "Sensor triggering based on sensor simulation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,612, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Pony AI Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Sensor triggering based on sensor simulation" was invented by Pingfan Meng (Dublin, Calif.), Zhenhao Pan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Stephen Lee (Fremont, Calif.), Wei-yang Chiu (Fremont, Calif.) and Kai Chen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for triggering a sensor operation of a second sensor (e.g., a camera) based on a predicted time of alignment with a first sensor (e.g., a LiDAR), where operation of the second sensor is simulated to determine the predicted...