US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on April 8 for "Estimating road grade for inertial measurement unit calibration in an unmapped environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,655, issued on April 8, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Estimating road grade for inertial measurement unit calibration in an unmapped environment" was invented by Mayur Nitinbhai Shah (Pleasanton, Calif.), Vincent Kee (San Francisco) and Adria Serra Moral (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject disclosure relates to estimating a grade of a road and calibrating sensors of an autonomous vehicle based on the grade. A process of the disclosed technology can include effectuating an autonomous vehicle to perform one or more maneuvers that cause the autonomous vehicle to face different direction...