ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,203, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ClearMotion Inc. (Billerica, Mass.).

"Using reference road segments to calibrate the response of vehicle sensor systems" was invented by Jack A. Ekchian (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein include implementations where performance of systems for measuring aspects of a road surface, such as sensor systems, on board a production vehicle may be improved by using data collected by the production vehicle while traveling on primary and/or secondary reference road segments. Primary reference road segments in a road network may be characterized by special...