US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories on July 22 for "System and method for controlling a vehicle in an environment" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,450, issued on July 22, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"System and method for controlling a vehicle in an environment" was invented by Karl Berntorp (Cambridge, Mass.) and Marcel Menner (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a system and a method for controlling a vehicle in an environment. The method uses a processor coupled to a memory storing a probabilistic map of the environment relating measurements of a magnetic field and time of the measurements of the magnetic field to a probability of locations within the environment. The processor ...