US Patent Issued to Torc Robotics on July 21 for "Using glancing angle distance to segment LiDAR imagery" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,639, issued on July 21, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Using glancing angle distance to segment LiDAR imagery" was invented by Sebastian Dingler (Stuttgart, Germany) and Jordan Stone (Christianburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting an object in a path of an vehicle using a LiDAR system includes emitting a LiDAR signal with the LiDAR system; receiving the LiDAR signal with the LiDAR system; determining a glancing angle distance; determining the LiDAR signal is received from beyond the glancing angle distance based on receipt of the LiDAR signal; and classifying the LiDAR signal as a retu...