ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,056, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).
"Sensor synchronization system" was invented by Matthew Fornero (Berkeley, Calif.), Gregory Kehoe (Redwood City, Calif.), Joshua Leighton (Berkeley, Calif.) and Shane McGuire (Antioch, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for a sensor synchronization system. Sensors of an autonomous vehicle (AV) are synchronized to cause sampling of a first sensor of the sensors to occur in alignment with sampling of a second sensor of the sensors. A sampling time point for the first sensor is determined based on the synchronizing the se...