ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,187, issued on July 8, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Computer-implemented method for estimating a vehicle position" was invented by Sebastian Gruenwedel (Ulm, Germany), Manus McElhone (Ulm, Germany), Marc Scott Meissner (Munich), Pascal Minnerup (Unterschleissheim, Germany), Peter Pedron (Augsburg, Germany), Sebastian Rauch (Eisenhofen, Germany), Barbara Roessle (Boerslingen, Germany), Maxi Winter (Munich) and Martin Zeman (Vestec, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method estimates a vehicle position. The method provides a first position estimate based on position information...