ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,915, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for calibration and validation of range sensors and LiDAR sensors mounted on a vehicle that have non-overlapping fields of view (FOV)" was invented by Hatem Alismail (Pittsburgh) and Michael Schoenberg (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems calibrating LiDAR sensors mounted on a vehicle and having non-overlapping fields of view (FOVs). The methods include collecting first sensor data corresponding to a calibration environment from a first LiDAR sensor mounted on the vehicle, and second sensor data correspo...