US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on March 24 for "Robust lidar-to-camera sensor alignment" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,245, issued on March 24, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Robust lidar-to-camera sensor alignment" was invented by Yousef A. Omar (Troy, Mich.), Hongtao Wang (Madison Heights, Mich.), Hao Yu (Troy, Mich.) and Wende Zhang (Birmingham, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for sensor alignment including detecting a depth point cloud including a first object and a second object, generating a first control point in response to a location of the first object within the depth point cloud and a second control point in response to a location of the second object within the depth point cloud, capturing an...