ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,461, issued on March 17, was assigned to GM Cruise Hodings LLC (San Francisco).
"Adjustable sensor housing" was invented by Anurag Patel (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology provides solutions for repositioning an adjustable sensor with respect to the autonomous vehicle in response to a determination that the field of view of the sensor is obstructed. A method of the disclosed technology can include steps for actuating an adjustable sensor housing comprising receiving a first set of sensor data representing an environment around an autonomous vehicle (AV), wherein the first set of sensor data is ...