US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Jan. 20 for "Online LIDAR-to-ground alignment" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,774, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Online LIDAR-to-ground alignment" was invented by Yao Hu (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Xinyu Du (Oakland Township, Mich.), Wende Zhang (Birmingham, Mich.) and Hao Yu (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR-to-vehicle alignment system includes a sensor data collection module configured to collect points of data provided based on outputs of one or more LIDAR sensors. An alignment module is configured to identify lane markings based on the points of data, determine a lane marking direction based on the identified lane markings, calculate a y...