ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,606, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"User interface-assisted vehicle positioning" was invented by Yuxiang Peng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ning Luo (Cupertino, Calif.) and Bo Zheng (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for vehicle positioning. In an aspect, a positioning engine aggregator of a host vehicle determines a position estimate of the host vehicle based on one or more position fixes determined by one or more positioning engines of the host vehicle, receives input from a user interface (UI) of the host vehicle to correct the position estimate of the host vehicle, an...