ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,532, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Sensor calibration" was invented by Sreevatsan Bhaskaran (Redwood City, Calif.) and Mathew Piotrowicz (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining a calibration score associated with a sensor are discussed herein. For example, a lidar sensor may capture lidar data representing lidar returns in an environment. A number of data points associated with multiple regions can be determined based on one or more lidar scans associated with the sensor. For example, a number of lidar returns for each region may be used to determine a ca...