ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,224, issued on April 29, was assigned to Neutron Holdings Inc. (San Francisco).
"Vehicle operation zone detection" was invented by Hung Yui Lo (San Francisco), Hao Min (San Francisco) and Zijie Xu (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a vehicle apparatus, and related vehicle control method, the vehicle apparatus including a memory to store zone map data representing one or more operation zones, a sensor of the vehicle fetching vehicle location data from one or more location beacons; and a controller, in communication with the sensor, analyzing the vehicle location data and comparing the present locat...