US Patent Issued to Waymo on Feb. 17 for "Semantic segmentation neural network for point clouds" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,366, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Semantic segmentation neural network for point clouds" was invented by Yin Zhou (San Jose, Calif.), Ruizhongtai Qi (Mountain View, Calif.), Dragomir Anguelov (San Francisco), Minghua Liu (La Jolla, Calif.) and Boqing Gong (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a semantic segmentation neural network for point clouds. One of the methods includes: obtaining a plurality of training points divided into a respective plurality of components; obtai...