ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,729, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ClearMotion Inc. (Billerica, Mass.).
"Road surface-based vehicle control" was invented by Vijayaraghavan Sridhar (New York), John Parker Eisenmann (Burlington, Mass.), Yu Jiang (Wellesley, Mass.) and David Francis Weatherwax (Westford, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining the location of a vehicle are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for localizing a vehicle includes driving over a first road segment, identifying by a first localization system a set of candidate road segments, obtaining vertical motion data while driving over the first road segment, com...