US Patent Issued to Waymo on Aug. 4 for "Wide-view LIDAR with areas of special attention" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,392, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Wide-view LIDAR with areas of special attention" was invented by Bradley Templeton (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Pierre-Yves Droz (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jiajun Zhu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method include scanning a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device through a range of orientations corresponding to a scanning zone while emitting light pulses from the LIDAR device. The method also includes receiving returning light pulses corresponding to the light pulses emitted from the LIDAR device and determining initial point cloud d...