ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,363, issued on April 29, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Sensor calibration for autonomous systems and applications" was invented by Ayon Sen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Gang Pan (Fremont, Calif.), Cheng-Chieh Yang (Seattle) and Yue Wu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, sensor configuration for autonomous or semi-autonomous systems and applications is described. Systems and methods are disclosed that may use image feature correspondences between camera images along with an assumption that image features are locally planar to determine parameters for calibrating an image sensor wi...