ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,314, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Hitachi Rail GTS Canada Inc. (Toronto).

"Vehicle positioning system" was invented by David Beach (Toronto) and Alon Green (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle positioning system includes processing circuitry in communication with the vehicle. The system further includes a memory connected to the processing circuitry, where the memory is configured to store executable instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, facilitate performance of operations. The operations include to receive vehicle-speed data from a first set of sensors operably coupled to the vehicle. The ...