US Patent Issued to Waymo on July 21 for "Vehicle sensor verification and calibration" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,847, issued on July 21, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Vehicle sensor verification and calibration" was invented by Stephanie McArthur (Mountain View, Calif.), Mark Alexander Shand (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Colin Braley (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method involves detecting a sensor-testing trigger. Detecting the sensor-testing trigger may comprise determining that a vehicle is within a threshold distance to a target in an environment of the vehicle. The method also involves obtaining sensor data collected by a sensor of the vehicle after the detection of the sensor-testing trigg...