US Patent Issued to HERE GLOBAL on July 15 for "Method and apparatus for recovering frame orientation between body and vehicle frames for an inertial navigation system" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,918, issued on July 15, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for recovering frame orientation between body and vehicle frames for an inertial navigation system" was invented by Jani Kappi (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program product are configured to re-estimate misalignment between the body frame of an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and the vehicle frame following movement of a mobile device embodying the sensor(s) of the IMU relative to the vehicle. In a method, movement of the mobile device relative to the vehicle is detected. In resp...