ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,428, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Sensor angular alignment" was invented by Hongtao Wang (Madison Heights, Mich.), Wende Zhang (Birmingham, Mich.) and Hao Yu (Troy, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems for sensor alignment include acquiring a translational vector, a first calibration point location and a second calibration point location, determining an expected rotational orientation in response to the translational vector, the first calibration point location and the second calibration point location, capturing an image of the a first calibration po...