ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,338, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Localization device and localization method for vehicle" was invented by Yu-Jhong Chen (Tainan, Taiwan), Pei-Jung Liang (Taichung, Taiwan) and Ren-Yi Huang (Changhua County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A localization device and a localization method for a vehicle are provided. The localization device includes an inertia measurer, an encoder, an image capturing device, and a processor. The processor obtains an encoded data by the encoder to generate a first odometer data, obtains an inertial data by the inertia measurer to ...