ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,305, issued on July 8, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Camera misalignment detection system for a vehicle" was invented by Yao Hu (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Binbin Li (Columbus, Ohio), Xinyu Du (Oakland Township, Mich.) and Hao Yu (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera misalignment detection system detecting a misalignment condition of one or more cameras for a vehicle includes one or more controllers that determine a set of matched pixel pairs, determine a feature matching ratio based on the set of matched pixel pairs, and calculate an alignment angle difference of the one or more cameras...