ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,836, issued on May 13, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Calibration of sensors in autonomous vehicle applications" was invented by Sheng Zhao (Cupertino, Calif.), Antonio Teran Espinoza (Cambridge, Mass.), Volker Grabe (Redwood City, Calif.) and Changchang Wu (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described aspects and implementations enable efficient calibration of a sensing system of an autonomous vehicle (AV). In one implementation, disclosed is a method and a system to perform the method, the system including the sensing system configured to collect sensing data and a data processing system, operati...