US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on March 18 for "Secure camera based inertial measurement unit calibration for stationary systems" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,647, issued on March 18, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Secure camera based inertial measurement unit calibration for stationary systems" was invented by Christopher David Ruppel (Carmel, Ind.) and Bradley Scott Coon (Russiaville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques and systems for secure camera based IMU calibration for stationary systems, including vehicles. Existing vehicle camera systems are employed, with enhanced security to prevent malicious attempts by hackers to try and cause a vehicle to enter IMU calibration mode. IMU calibration occurs when a calibration syste...