US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on Dec. 23 for "Automatic detection of a calibration standard in unstructured lidar point clouds" (Alabama Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,522, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Automatic detection of a calibration standard in unstructured lidar point clouds" was invented by Michael Brandon Schwiesow (Madison, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include obtaining point cloud data representing a point cloud; selecting a subset of the point cloud data based at least in part on a contour metric; grouping sets of points of the subset of the point cloud into one or more clusters based at least in part on one or more distance metrics; for a cluster that satisfies one or more cluster size criteria based on dimensions o...