ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,790, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Rolling shutter compensation" was invented by Giancarlo Baldan (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for rolling shutter compensation, which can include causing a rolling shutter camera to capture an image of an environment; determining a first position in the environment, the first position captured in the image; and determining, by the at least one processor, a second position in the image that corresponds to the first position in the environment. Determining the second position includes applying a first approximation that relative m...