ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,251, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Method and apparatus to determine relative location using GNSS carrier phase" was invented by Bo Zheng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yinghua Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Ning Luo (Cupertino, Calif.) and Gengsheng Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided which may be implemented using various methods and/or apparatuses in a vehicle to determine location relative to a roadside unit (RSU) or other nearby point of reference. Vehicles within a pre-designated range or within broadcast distance or otherwise geographically proximate to a roadside u...