ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,202, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Auto-calibrating a target sensor using scene mapping information from a reference sensor" was invented by Martin Mueller (San Jose, Calif.), Vikram Appia (San Jose, Calif.) and Gary Fay (Hermosa Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing auto-calibration for a target sensor from information gained by a reference sensor, thereby enabling cross-sensor self-calibration for a set of sensors. A method includes the step of obtaining a first mapping of a first observable scene from a first scene sensing device and a second ...