US Patent Issued to NATIONAL YANG MING CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY on June 24 for "Vehicular positioning method and system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,126, issued on June 24, was assigned to NATIONAL YANG MING CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Vehicular positioning method and system" was invented by Chia-Cheng Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Jyh-Cheng Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular positioning method is provided for positioning a vehicle that is running on a road, where the road has a plurality of feature objects that have the same detectable feature and that are disposed along the road. The vehicle is provided with a system that counts a number of the feature objects the vehicle has passed by as the vehicle runs on the road, and that calcula...