US Patent Issued to National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University on June 17 for "Method and electronic device for determining road type" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,325, issued on June 17, was assigned to National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method and electronic device for determining road type" was invented by Chia-Cheng Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Jyh-Cheng Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Xin Xiao (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a road type includes measuring, for a preset period, a magnetic field of an environment in which an electronic device is located to obtain a plurality of magnetic field values, calculating an absolute value of a difference between every two adjacent magnetic field values among the magnetic field valu...