ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,608, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Vision-based location and turn marker prediction" was invented by Andrey Viktorovich Filimonov (Bogorodskiyrayon, Russia), Ohad Akiva (Hod-Hasharon, Israel) and Timothy Raymond VanGoethem (Milford, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and apparatus for accurately determining a vehicle's position and predicting navigation key points in real time. The method including instructing a vehicle mounted camera to capture a plurality of images, computing the angular changes between a first image and a subsequent secon...