US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Jan. 13 for "Online sensor alignment using feature registration" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,752, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Online sensor alignment using feature registration" was invented by Yao Hu (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Xinyu Du (Oakland Township, Mich.), Binbin Li (Columbus, Ohio) and Hao Yu (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for aligning a sensor to a vehicle includes receiving a first frame of measurement from the sensor which includes a first point cloud. One or more clusters Ci representing one or more objects or the ground are segmented. A first set of feature vectors fi is computed for each cluster Ci. Based on the fi...