US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for calibration and validation of non-overlapping range sensors of an autonomous vehicle" (Pennsylvania, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,012, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for calibration and validation of non-overlapping range sensors of an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Hatem Alismail (Pittsburgh), Michael Schoenberg (Seattle) and Zhenxiang Jian (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for validating LiDAR sensor calibration are disclosed. The methods include collecting sensor data corresponding to a calibration environment from a LiDAR sensor and segmenting a reconstructed point cloud of the calibration environment to generate a plurality of planes. The method...