US Patent Issued to Velodyne Lidar USA on July 28 for "Use of lidar for intelligent space management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,418, issued on July 28, was assigned to Velodyne Lidar USA Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Use of lidar for intelligent space management" was invented by Anurag Gupta (San Jose, Calif.), Vishal Jain (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Neel Shah (San Jose, Calif.) and Farnam Adelkhani (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems related to intelligent space management are described. An example method of monitoring an environment includes receiving a first image of an environment captured by a camera, receiving a point cloud of the environment generated by a lidar device, registering at least a portion of the point cloud with at ...