US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on March 17 for "Intelligent settings of onboard sensors on a vehicle" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,858, issued on March 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Intelligent settings of onboard sensors on a vehicle" was invented by Shunguo Yan (Austin, Texas), Su Liu (Austin, Texas) and Zhennan Wang (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes detecting a future terrain metric by a vehicle. The embodiment includes responsive to detecting the future terrain metric, computing a sensor adjustment metric based on a current terrain metric and the future terrain metric. The embodiment also includes adjusting an onboard sensor of the vehicle based on the sensor adjustment metric."...