US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Oct. 21 for "Automatic detection of lidar to vehicle alignment state using localization data" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,520, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Automatic detection of lidar to vehicle alignment state using localization data" was invented by Xinyu Du (Oakland Township, Mich.), Yao Hu (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Wende Zhang (Birmingham, Mich.) and Hao Yu (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system in a vehicle includes a lidar system to obtain lidar data in a lidar coordinate system, and processing circuitry to obtain the lidar data and localization data. The localization data indicates a location and orientation of the vehicle. The processing circuitry automatically determines an a...