US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on Oct. 14 for "Positioning system to position a terminal carried by a user in a vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,142, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

"Positioning system to position a terminal carried by a user in a vehicle" was invented by Kouki Hayashi (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Taishi Yamamoto (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Shinji Kimura (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Mikio Iwamura (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Osamu Goto (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Eriko Oseki (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning system includes a first storage unit that stores global map data in which image data outside a vehicle is associated with global position information and local map data in which image data inside the vehicle is associate...