ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,463, issued on March 17, was assigned to Gatik AI Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Sensor system" was invented by Ashwath Kini (Mountain View, Calif.), Andreas Bauer (Mountain View, Calif.), Peter A. Forbes (Mountain View, Calif.), Dharmateja Kadem (Mountain View, Calif.), Apeksha Kumavat (Palo Alto, Calif.), Arjun Narang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Gautam Narang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In variants, the system can include a vehicle and a set of sensor assemblies, wherein at least one of the sensor assemblies includes a set of sensors mounted to a dimensional layer configured to align and retain the sensor positio...