US Patent Issued to Waymo on March 3 for "Methods of using background images from a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,275, issued on March 3, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods of using background images from a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device" was invented by Georges Goetz (Mountain View, Calif.) and Luke Wachter (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (lidar) device may be coupled to a vehicle and configured to scan a surrounding environment to determine ranges to one or more objects in the surrounding environment of the vehicle. The lidar device may generate data that can be used to form a range image, which includes or is based on range data determined for the one or more obj...