ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,179, issued on April 21, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Calibration of a vehicle sensor" was invented by Marko Alexovski (Markdorf, Germany) and Aless Lasaruk (Meckenbeuren, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (200) for calibrating a vehicle sensor (105) mounted on a vehicle (110) includes: scanning a marker (120) in the area of the vehicle sensor (105) by a sensor device (115); determining a first pose of the marker (120) in relation to the sensor device (115); scanning a structural feature (140) of the vehicle (110) by the sensor device (115); determining a second pose of the vehicle...