ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,236, issued on March 3, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Automated sensor noise model tuning" was invented by Michael Carsten Bosse (Templeton, Calif.) and Jeffrey Eric Tolliver (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Auto-tuning covariances associated with a set of noise models for a variety of sensor modalities and/or perception components such that the covariances are leveled respective to one another may include whitening the covariances and/or error models and determining scalars to apply to the covariances. Determining these scalars may comprise using the residuals that result from generating the set ...