ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,872, issued on May 13.
"Method and apparatus for determining a position of a vehicle" was invented by Andrew Batchelor (Reading, Great Britain) and Douglas Watson (Reading, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of determining a position of a vehicle 10 within a transport network comprises: obtaining track geometry data indicating track geometry of at least a part of the transport network; determining, based upon the track geometry data, that the vehicle is approaching a junction; determining, based upon the track geometry data, a plurality of route options from the junction; generating a plurality...