ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,806, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Autonomous vehicle chassis frame estimation by minimizing distortion from CAD model" was invented by Hyungjin Kim (Campbell, Calif.), Adria Serra Moral (Oakland, Calif.) and Ankit Rohatgi (Pacifica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject disclosure relates to estimating a chassis frame of an autonomous vehicle. A process of the disclosed technology can include receiving a position for each of a plurality of sensors on an autonomous vehicle, determining an ideal chassis point in relation to a constellation of model sensors in a CAD model associ...