ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,752, issued on March 24, was assigned to AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH & TESTING CENTER (Lugang, Taiwan).

"Visual vehicle-positioning fusion system and method thereof" was invented by Chih-Yuan Hsu (Lugang, Taiwan), Nong-Hong Lin (Lugang, Taiwan), Ting-Fu Jhu (Lugang, Taiwan), You-Sian Lin (Lugang, Taiwan) and Shih-Hsuan Lin (Lugang, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visual vehicle-positioning fusion system and a method thereof is provided. In the method, an image point cloud map stored in a storage device is converted into a longitude and latitude database corresponding to the image point cloud map. Longitude and latitude measurement c...