ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,646, issued on May 27, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Vehicle, system, and method for determining a position of a moveable element in a vehicle" was invented by Detlef Wilke (Sibbesse, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for determining a position of a moveable element in a vehicle comprises the following steps carried out by computer hardware components: acquiring a plurality of position related information data sets from at least one sensor; selecting at least one of the plurality of position related information data sets based on a pre-determined rule; and deter...