ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,517, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).
"Vehicular position estimation system" was invented by Youhei Sekiya (Nisshin-city, Japan), Kenichiro Sanji (Nisshin-city, Japan), Kazuhiro Nakashima (Kariya-city, Japan) and Takashi Shinoda (Kariya-city, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular position estimation system estimates a portable terminal position with respect to a vehicle. Each of three or more in-vehicle communication devices is attached at a different position of the vehicle. Each of the multiple in-vehicle communication devices generates distance information indicating a distance from the...