ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,247, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"Vehicle road side location of a target via unwrapped differential phase RF signals" was invented by Sirajum Munir (Pittsburgh) and Hongkai Chen (Smithtown, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle side target location method includes receiving a request, via a first wireless connection, for the vehicle to travel to a location, in response to the vehicle being less than a predetermined distance from the location, receiving RF packets, via a second wireless connection having a multiple antenna radio frequency (RF) transceiver having an identification (ID), from a ...