ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,763, issued on May 19, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Vehicle and node positioning method" was invented by Yocheol Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Donghee Seok (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a signal transmission part configured to transmit a signal for wireless network connection to an outside of a shaded area where a GPS signal is not received based on the vehicle having entered the shaded area. A positioning part is configured to communicate with a vehicle located outside the shaded area, to receive the signal, and to calculate a re...