US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 17 for "Estimation device, estimation method, and non-transitory storage medium that calculates an estimate value of a mobile object's position derived from three-dimensional point cloud data matchings" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,687, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Estimation device, estimation method, and non-transitory storage medium that calculates an estimate value of a mobile object's position derived from three-dimensional point cloud data matchings" was invented by Keigo Ikeda (Nisshin, Japan), Yasuhiro Saito (Toyoake, Japan) and Daiki Yokoyama (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimation device used to cause a mobile object to move by driverless driving includes one or more processors configured to: perform first matching using three-dimensional point cloud data on the mobile object acquired ...