ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,483, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TRANSFINDER Corp. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Automatically pairing GPS data to planned travel routes of mobile objects" was invented by Antonio Civitella (Schenectady, N.Y.) and Joseph Messia (Schenectady, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "GPS data is paired with planned travel routes for mobile objects including vehicles. A system obtains GPS data from a mobile object and compares the GPS data to planned travel routes. The comparison includes comparing GPS coordinates of the mobile object to the planned travel routes to determine if a specified level of GPS coordinates are within a specified dist...