ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,387, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Q-Free Norge AS (Trondheim, Norway).

"Vehicle movement tracking" was invented by Ola Martin Lykkja (Rasta, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for determining a path taken by a vehicle are disclosed. A path portion is determined from a plurality of position estimates of the vehicle using a satellite positioning system. From the position estimates a determination is made that the path includes a poor satellite signal zone and the path portion is combined with a predetermined path portion corresponding to the poor satellite signal zone to provide the determined path."

The p...