ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,622, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Vehicle Service Group Italy S.r.l. (Ostellato, Italy).

"Calibration apparatus and method of verifying the positioning of a calibration device" was invented by Massimo Mambrilla (Scalenghe, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus of positioning of a calibration device for one or more sensors of a vehicle wherein a computerized system determines or knows data representative of the position and orientation of the vehicle with respect to a common reference system, and data representative of the position and orientation, with respect to the common reference system, of at least on...