ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,119, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Drive-through calibration process" was invented by Juan Fasola (San Francisco), Ankit Rohatgi (Pacifica, Calif.), Alexandri Zavodny (San Francisco), Zhizhong Yan (San Francisco), Pragya Agrawal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mayur Shah (Pleasanton, Calif.), Syed Aziz Enam (Fremont, Calif.), Morgan Wessel (San Francisco) and Joseph Thibeault (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and computer-readable media for a calibration check process of sensors on an autonomous vehicle (AV) via a drive-through environment mapped with a series of targets...