ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,622, issued on July 21, was assigned to NURO INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for validation of intrinsic parameters for lidar" was invented by Jingwen Zoe Du (Mountain View, Calif.), Yang Han (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Laszlo Peter Berczi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, a method includes positioning a lidar on a platform, measuring at least a first data point using the lidar, measuring at least a second data point using the lidar, processing the at least first data point and the at least second data point to identify a first estimated location of the vertex, and determi...