ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,220, issued on May 12, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).

"Method for determining a corrected distance" was invented by Christophe Villien (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method determines a corrected distance between a mobile transceiver fastened to a vehicle and a fixed transceiver. The method includes: identification, among a set of predetermined path segments, of the segment on which the vehicle is currently found on the basis of the last position determined for this vehicle, then selection of a correction function specifically associated with the identified s...