ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,111, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AUMOVIO Germany GmbH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
"Method and electronic control system for ascertaining a distance travelled by a vehicle" was invented by Mohanad Youssef (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Kai Bretzigheimer (Mainz, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a corresponding electronic control system for ascertaining a distance traveled by a vehicle predicts with a Kalman filter a distance traveled by the vehicle using a change in angle of rotation of at least one right wheel and/or at least one left wheel of the vehicle for a specific period of time while the vehicle is...