ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,906, issued on July 28, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Object detection and tracking, including parallelized lidar semantic segmentation" was invented by Subhasis Das (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Benjamin Isaac Zwiebel (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating a semantic segmentation of point cloud data may include detecting an object based at least in part one or more images and using the image-based object detection in combination with the point cloud data to determine the semantic segmentation of the point cloud data. The semantic segmentation of point cloud data may be conducted in parallel with...