US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Nov. 18 for "Robust lidar-to-camera sensor alignment" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,597, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Robust lidar-to-camera sensor alignment" was invented by Yousef A. Omar (Troy, Mich.), Hao Yu (Troy, Mich.) and Wende Zhang (Birmingham, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor alignment method including detecting, detecting an object within a first sensor field of view and a second sensor field of view, detecting a plurality of depth point clouds of the first field of view in response to the object being stationary, the host vehicle being stationary, and the distance between the object and the host vehicle being less than a threshold distan...