ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,310, issued on June 3, was assigned to Trimble Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).

"Accuracy verification of a perception system of a vehicle" was invented by Brandon Sights (San Marcos, Calif.), Tom A. Sterling (Lakewood, Colo.) and Michael F. Cash (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of verifying accuracy of a perception system of a vehicle includes causing the vehicle to traverse a path around a target that is fixed in an environment. The target has a known pose. The path is configured so that the target comes into a respective field of view (FOV) of each respective perception sensor of one or more perception senso...