US Patent Issued to Waymo on Sept. 29 for "Methods for detecting lidar aperture fouling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,199, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods for detecting lidar aperture fouling" was invented by Jingyuan Linda Zhang (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Caner Onal (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes receiving point cloud information about a field of view of a lidar system. The point cloud information includes spatiotemporal and amplitude information about return light received. The method also includes determining, based on the point cloud information, a set of bright light returns from at least one highly reflective object. The bright light returns include re...