ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,167, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Vehicle control with incomplete calibration" was invented by Zachary Matthew Logan Edwards (San Francisco) and David Xuan Vu Tran (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle (AV) navigates with limited calibration of sensors and other components. To navigate with a less-reliable sensing and control capacity, the AV uses sensors to detect a navigation path within the environment of the AV. The navigation path may include encoded information describing a destination or distance to information, which may be decoded by the AV to select a nav...