ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,574, issued on June 3, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Sensor calibration validation" was invented by Derek Adams (Pasadena, Calif.), Zakieh Sadat Hashemifar (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Agis Iakovos Mesolongitis (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining a probability that a first sensor is miscalibrated with respect a second sensor are discussed herein. For example, a computing device may receive calibrated extrinsics of a camera to a lidar, determine a plurality of sets of perturbed extrinsics based on the calibrated extrinsics, determine respective costs for perturbed extrinsics of the ...