ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,749, issued on May 27, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for GNSS-based localization of a vehicle" was invented by Christian Skupin (Garbsen, Germany) and Wen Ren (Hildesheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method for GNSS-based localization of a vehicle, comprising at least the following steps: a) receiving GNSS-satellite signals from GNSS satellites and determining at least one item of distance information about the distance between the vehicle and the GNSS satellite emitting the relevant GNSS-satellite signal, b) determining at least one item of environmental inform...