US Patent Issued to Motional on March 31 for "Methods and systems for sensor operation" (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,064, issued on March 31, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Methods and systems for sensor operation" was invented by Giancarlo Baldan (Somerville, Mass.), Timothy O'Donnell (West Newton, Mass.) and William Buono (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for sensor operation, which can include obtaining first location data of a first sensor associated with an autonomous vehicle and determining a first position parameter and a first configuration parameter of the first sensor. Some methods described also include operating the first sensor based on the first configuration parameter. Systems and computer p...