ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,493, issued on June 9, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Object detection using spatial segmentation" was invented by Kenneth Nathan Brown (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for object detection based on sensor data are discussed herein. In some cases, the techniques described herein include receiving lidar data and radar data associated with an environment of a vehicle, wherein the lidar data comprises a first set of lidar points associated with a first portion of the environment. The techniques further include determining, based on the radar data, a first subset of the first set that is ass...