ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,922, issued on June 3, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Radar mount-angle calibration" was invented by Muhammad Zubair Ikram (Richardson, Texas) and Adeel Ahmad (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes one or more processors configured to receive radar data, and generate a plurality of occupancy grid maps based on the radar data. Each of the occupancy grid maps corresponds to a respective one of a plurality of candidate angles. The one or more processors is also configured to select one of the candidate angles as a sensor mount angle based on the occupancy grid maps, and trigger an action based o...