ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,469, issued on March 17, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Dynamic object auto-labeling" was invented by Arthur Daniel Costea (Foster City, Calif.), David Pfeiffer (Foster City, Calif.) and Zeng Wang (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining labels for potentially small, moving, and non-impeding objects in an environment are disclosed. Unlabeled lidar segments may be evaluated to determine whether segments are associated with objects located in a drivable region and to determine one or more characteristics of such segments. This determination includes comparing segment characterist...