ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,590, issued on March 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for online camera to ground alignment" was invented by Xinyu Du (Oakland Township, Mich.), Yao Hu (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Binbin Li (College Station, Texas) and Hao Yu (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle, a system and a method of navigating the vehicle. The system includes a camera conveyed by the vehicle and a processor. The camera is configured to obtain an original image data file of an environment. The processor is configured to reduce the original image data file to obtain a reduced image data file and...