ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,218, issued on May 6, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for calibrating a Lidar sensor" was invented by Christian Kobetz (Horb, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Decalibration of a Lidar sensor of a vehicle is identified using a reference and verification measurement, each of which projects at least one line on a road surface. A position of the projected at least one lines from the reference and verification measurements are compared to determine whether the lines are displaced from each other by more than a specified amount, in which case degradation of the Lidar sensor is identified."
The pa...