ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,691, issued on June 24, was assigned to ClearMotion Inc. (Billerica, Mass.).

"Vehicular localization systems, methods, and controls" was invented by Yu Jiang (Wellesley, Mass.), Vijayaraghavan Sridhar (New York), John Parker Eisenmann (Burlington, Mass.), William Graves (Somerville, Mass.) and Michael W. Finnegan (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Localization systems, including road surface-based localization systems, are disclosed that may work in conjunction with less precise systems, such as GPS, to accurately locate a vehicle on a road segment. Methods and apparatus are disclosed for the identification and selection ...