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 Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,011, 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) and Michael Schoenberg (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for performing intrinsic calibration of a LiDAR sensor mounted on a vehicle are disclosed. The methods include collecting sensor data corresponding to a calibration environment from the LiDAR sensor, defining a model of one or more intrinsic parameters of the LiDAR sensor, solving the model to intrinsically calibr...