US Patent Issued to Waymo on Sept. 1 for "Generating panoptic segmentation labels" (Maryland, California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,260, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generating panoptic segmentation labels" was invented by Jieru Mei (Baltimore), Hang Yan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Liang-Chieh Chen (Los Angeles), Siyuan Qiao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yukun Zhu (Shoreline, Wash.), Alex Zihao Zhu (Mountain View, Calif.), Xinchen Yan (San Francisco) and Henrik Kretzschmar (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for generating a panoptic segmentation label for a sensor data sample. In one aspect, a system comprises one or more computers configured to obtain a sensor data sample characterizi...