ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,252, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for recognizing vehicle location using geomagnetic sensor" was invented by Taikjin Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Beomju Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Jungho Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Changsu Yu (Seoul, South Korea), Taehun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Chulki Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaehun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for performing vehicle position recognition using a geomagnetic sensor by calibrating the geomagnetic sensor on the basis of a geomagnetic sensor...