US Patent Issued to Volkswagen Group of America Investments on Aug. 26 for "Systems and methods for autonomous vehicle sensor calibration and validation" (New York, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,365, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Volkswagen Group of America Investments LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Systems and methods for autonomous vehicle sensor calibration and validation" was invented by Parul Kothari (New York) and Hatem Alismail (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for determining whether a camera of an autonomous vehicle (AV) is calibrated are disclosed. The method includes determining a relative positional range for a calibration target with respect to the AV, capturing a plurality of images of the calibration target, using the camera when the calibration target and the AV are positioned within th...