ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,313, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Harman International Industries Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Methods and systems for localizing a target device relative to a vehicle" was invented by Praveen Badiger (Ingolstadt, Germany), Kumar Balijepalli Sita Rama Subramanya (Bangalore, India) and Praveenkumar Emani (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining a plurality of target device distances between a plurality of vehicle sensor nodes of a vehicle and the target device, identifying a reference target device distance from among the plurality of target device distances based on a magnitude of the plurality o...