US Patent Issued to Hitachi Rail GTS Canada on July 22 for "Method and system for high-integrity vehicle localization" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,650, issued on July 22, was assigned to Hitachi Rail GTS Canada Inc. (Toronto).

"Method and system for high-integrity vehicle localization" was invented by Bojan Subasic (Toronto), Alon Green (Toronto), Walter Kinio (Toronto), Marco De Thomasis (Toronto) and David Beach (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a method of locating a guideway mounted vehicle are disclosed. In one embodiment, a communication signal is transmitted to a wayside communication device. A range estimation is obtained based on the communication signal. A radar signal is transmitted to at least one reflector. An accuracy of the range estimation i...