US Patent Issued to GEOTOLL on Feb. 4 for "Method and system for adaptive GNSS sampling rate to improve mileage reporting accuracy of a road usage charge (RUC) system" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,217, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to GEOTOLL INC. (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Method and system for adaptive GNSS sampling rate to improve mileage reporting accuracy of a road usage charge (RUC) system" was invented by Jaime Andres Borras (Miramar, Fla.) and Wyatt Drake Geist (Davie, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road usage charge system tracks and reports the distance travelled by a vehicle. The accuracy of the distance driven versus competing considerations such as battery drain of the mobile device doing the reporting is augmented by defining a speed threshold. When the vehicle is travelling faster than the speed threshold, loca...