US Patent Issued to Waymo on May 26 for "Determining yaw error from map data, lasers, and cameras" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,588, issued on May 26, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Determining yaw error from map data, lasers, and cameras" was invented by John Tisdale (Oakland, Calif.), Michael Montemerlo (Mountainview, Calif.) and Andrew Chatham (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and systems that facilitate determination of a pose of a vehicle based on various combinations of map data and sensor data received from light detection and ranging (LIDAR) devices and/or camera devices. An example method includes receiving point cloud data from a (LIDAR) device and transforming the point cloud...