ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,619, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Profound Positioning Inc. (Calgary, Canada).

"Vehicle localization system and method" was invented by Mostafa Sakr (Calgary, Canada), Adel Moussa (Calgary, Canada), Mohamed Elsheikh (Calgary, Canada), Walid Abdelfatah (Calgary, Canada) and Naser El-Sheimy (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle localization system and method includes acquiring, from a first sensor, first data indicative of a first navigation state of a vehicle; acquiring, from a second sensor, second data indicative of an environment in the vicinity of the vehicle; generating, using a processor communicatively...