ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,227, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Kapsch TrafficCom AG (Vienna).
"Method and apparatus for determining a lateral vehicle position" was invented by Lila Vinski (Markham, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a lateral position of a vehicle passing a road and carrying a transponder uses at least two antennas mounted at different lateral positions and connected to a processor and comprises: triggering the transponder and recording signals from responses of the transponder by the processor, each signal being received via one of the antennas and recorded as i) a time of receipt at said one antenna and ii) the ...