US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF on Oct. 27 for "Method of maintaining lateral position of a vehicle on a roadway, method of configuring a roadway for lateral position sensing, and paving material product" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,990, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF (Illinois Urbana, Ill.).

"Method of maintaining lateral position of a vehicle on a roadway, method of configuring a roadway for lateral position sensing, and paving material product" was invented by Jeffery R. Roesler (Champaign, Ill.) and Sachindra Dahal (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of maintaining lateral lane position of a vehicle traveling on a roadway includes detecting a magnetic field from a surface of the roadway, where the surface includes a magnetic or magnetized material, and adjusting a lateral position of the vehic...