ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,265, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy), STMICROELECTRONICS INC. (Coppell, Texas) and STMicroelectronics (Grand Ouest) SAS (Le Mans, France).

"Method for motion estimation in a vehicle, corresponding device and computer program product" was invented by Nicola Matteo Palella (Rivolta d'Adda, Italy), Leonardo Colombo (Lecco, Italy), Andrea Donadel (Meda, Italy), Roberto Mura (Milan), Mahaveer Jain (Milpitas, Calif.) and Joelle Philippe (Le Mans, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes inertial sensors and a GPS. The system generates a first estimated vehicle velocity bas...