US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on June 2 for "System and method of correcting orientation errors" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,974, issued on June 2, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"System and method of correcting orientation errors" was invented by Eric P. Knutson (Kokomo, Ind.) and Jeff N. Tran (Kokomo, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orientation system comprises an orientation sensor, a distance sensor, and vehicle processing unit. The orientation sensor is configured to generate orientation data. The distance sensor is configured to generate relative distance data measuring relative distances to objects external to the vehicle. The vehicle processing unit is configured to receive the orientation data from the ori...