ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,168, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"Vehicle road side identification of a target via differential amplitude 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: "In one embodiment, 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 identif...