US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on April 21 for "System and method for map matching GNSS positions of a vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,466, issued on April 21, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"System and method for map matching GNSS positions of a vehicle" was invented by Stefan Holder (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and system for map matching Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positions of a vehicle with location information of a digital map, including map matching the determined distance between two respective detected consecutive GNSS positions of the vehicle with a route length between the two respective consecutive GNSS positions of the vehicle on the digital map."

The patent was filed on July...