US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Jan. 13 for "System and method for detecting a flat surface condition for sensor alignment and bias correction" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,495, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for detecting a flat surface condition for sensor alignment and bias correction" was invented by Tushita Arun Sikder (Windsor, Canada), Mohammadali Shahriari (Markham, Canada), Dhaval Kavindra Sompura (Canton, Mich.) and Abdoul Karim Abdoul Azizou (Courtice, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a system for calibrating a sensor of a vehicle. A first measure of road grade is determined for a road section being traversed by the vehicle based on Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) data. A second measure of road gr...