US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on March 25 for "Extrinsic calibration of multiple vehicle sensors using combined target detectable by multiple vehicle sensors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,593, issued on March 25, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Extrinsic calibration of multiple vehicle sensors using combined target detectable by multiple vehicle sensors" was invented by Adam Cadien (San Francisco), Zhonghua Ma (San Francisco), Jabeer Ahmed (San Francisco) and Nicholas Semansky (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensors coupled to a vehicle are calibrated, optionally using a dynamic scene with sensor targets around a motorized turntable that rotates the vehicle to different orientations. One vehicle sensor captures a representation of one feature of a sensor target, while another ve...