US Patent Issued to Volkswagen Group of America Investments on July 21 for "Precipitation rate determination for autonomous vehicles" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,395, issued on July 21, was assigned to Volkswagen Group of America Investments LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Precipitation rate determination for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Dustin Yautz (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for determining a precipitation rate. In some embodiments, a processor receives precipitation data from an array of sensors of a set of array of sensors disposed on a vehicle. A set of lidar sensors are disposed on the vehicle and the array of sensors is positioned within a predetermined distance of a respective lidar sensor of the...