ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,643, issued on July 22, was assigned to MOBILTECH (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for calibration of lidar and IMU, and computer program recorded on recording medium for executing method therefor" was invented by Jae Seung Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Sun Jae Jeong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a calibration method for a lidar and an IMU using features according to the shape of a specific object included in point cloud data. The method may include placing point cloud data acquired by a lidar mounted on a vehicle on a predefined world coordinate system, by a data generator, extracting a region to b...