ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,988, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ATIEVA INC. (Newark, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for determining lane level localization of a vehicle with global coordinates" was invented by Tony Zhou (Newark, Calif.), Huan Fu (Newark, Calif.), Fei Zhu (Newark, Calif.), Yi Shi (Newark, Calif.), Mohannad Murad (Newark, Calif.) and Eugene Lee (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to a method and apparatus for determining lane level localization of a vehicle with global coordinates. An automotive vehicle includes a vehicle navigation system, a database comprising standard-definition map data corresponding to road ...