ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,455, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Methods and systems for calibrating sensors using road map data" was invented by Dave Ferguson (Mountain View, Calif.) and Dorel Ionut Iordache (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems for calibrating sensors using road map data are provided. An autonomous vehicle may use various vehicle sensors to assist in navigation. Within examples, the autonomous vehicle may calibrate vehicle sensors through performing a comparison or analysis between information about the environment received by sensors with similar information p...