ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,751, issued on May 19, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Compressing lidar range images" was invented by Ruizhongtai Qi (Mountain View, Calif.), Yin Zhou (San Jose, Calif.), Xuanyu Zhou (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Dragomir Anguelov (San Francisco).
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 performing data compression and data decompression on lidar range images."
The patent was filed on Oct. 5, 2022, under Application No. 17/960,776.
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