ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,698, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TechNickel Inc. (Pacifica, Calif.).
"RF navigation for motor vehicles" was invented by Janice H. Nickel (Pacifica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a pavement marker configured to be mounted to a road at a lane line of a lane at known orientation with respect to the lane line; and an RF device carried by the raised pavement marker. The RF device is configured to transmit a directional RF navigation signal and it is positioned relative to the known orientation to transmit the signal across the lane in a direction that is substantially normal to the lane line."
The pat...