ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,751, issued on March 31, was assigned to ClearMotion Inc. (Billerica, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for vehicle control using terrain-based localization" was invented by John Parker Eisenmann (Burlington, Mass.), Marco Giovanardi (Melrose, Mass.), Stefan Schulze (Brookline, Mass.), William Graves (Somerville, Mass.), Vijayaraghavan Sridhar (New York), Marcus Joseph Proctor (Goffstown, N.H.) and Jack A. Ekchian (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein include implementation of road surface-based localization techniques for advanced vehicle features and control methods including lane drift det...