US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Sept. 30 for "Vehicle state estimation system and method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,609, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Vehicle state estimation system and method" was invented by Gary Lindsay Fay (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), Kuangmin Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Sameer Kolte (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for providing reliable positioning data for a vehicle. Satellite positioning data is determined using a satellite positioning module. Based on the satellite positioning data, a first dead reckoning module is periodically reset at a first interval and a first dead reckoning module is periodically reset at a second interv...