ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,839, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for calibrating image sensors of a vehicle" was invented by Mario Anthony Santillo (Canton, Mich.), Krishna Bandi (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Gregory P. Linkowski (Dearborn, Mich.) and Meghna Menon (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining infrastructure data from one or more infrastructure sensors, determining an infrastructure-based positional characteristic of the vehicle based on the infrastructure data, obtaining onboard image data from the onboard image sensor, determining an image-based...