US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on Feb. 10 for "Magnitude calibration of radar sensor based on radar map of known objects" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,860, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Magnitude calibration of radar sensor based on radar map of known objects" was invented by Georg Kuschk (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany), Marc Unzueta Canals (Munich), Michael Meyer (Munich) and Sven Moller (Lubbecke, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of calibrating a radar sensor includes receiving radar returns from a plurality of objects based on a radar signal sent from the radar sensor, each of the radar returns having a magnitude, at least a subset of the objects are known static objects, identifying a location and orientation of the...