US Patent Issued to AICHI STEEL on April 14 for "Vehicular system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,055, issued on April 14, was assigned to AICHI STEEL Corp. (Tokai, Japan).

"Vehicular system" was invented by Kazuo Urakawa (Tokai, Japan) and Shogo Okazaki (Tokai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular system includes a measuring unit attached to a vehicle to detect a magnetic marker laid along a traveling road, a database storing position information of the magnetic marker, and a control unit that acquires the position information of the magnetic marker by referring to a storage area of the database. The database has stored therein position information of each magnetic marker to which a distance from a reference point o...