US Patent Issued to Waymo on July 7 for "High throughput point cloud processing" (California, New York, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,887, issued on July 7, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"High throughput point cloud processing" was invented by Ruizhongtai Qi (Mountain View, Calif.), Yurong You (Ithaca, N.Y.), Yingwei Li (Middle River, Md.), Chenxi Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Yin Zhou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing sensor data, e.g., laser sensor data, using neural networks. One of the methods includes obtaining a temporal sequence of multiple three-dimensional point clouds generated from sensor readings of an environ...