US Patent Issued to HITACHI RAIL GTS UK on July 8 for "Method and apparatus for determining a position of a vehicle" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,580, issued on July 8, was assigned to HITACHI RAIL GTS UK Ltd. (London).

"Method and apparatus for determining a position of a vehicle" was invented by Andrew Batchelor (Reading, Great Britain) and Douglas Watson (Reading, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of determining a position of a vehicle within a transport network comprises obtaining track geometry data indicating track geometry of at least a part of the transport network; receiving first sensor data from an inertial measurement unit mounted to the vehicle; executing a Bayesian estimation filter algorithm to predict a position of the ve...