ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,390, issued on May 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Position estimation system, position estimation method, and program" was invented by Masahiro Kemmotsu (Miyoshi, Japan), Takuro Sawano (Nisshin, Japan), Yasuyoshi Hatano (Nisshin, Japan), Shogo Yasuyama (Okazaki, Japan), Kento Iwahori (Nagoya City, Japan) and Keigo Ikeda (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position estimation system, a position estimation method, and a program that can estimate a position of a moving body without installing an installation object on the moving body are provided. A position estimation system includes a detection u...