US Patent Issued to Transportation IP Holdings on Aug. 4 for "System and method to determine a location of a designated position of a vehicle system" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,019, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"System and method to determine a location of a designated position of a vehicle system" was invented by Matthew Vrba (Marion, Iowa), Stephen Craven (Hiawatha, Iowa), Amit Saxena (Marion, Iowa), Keith Edward Smith (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Rebekkah Linker (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Katrina Aileen See (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided including obtaining a first range area in which a designated position of a vehicle system may be determined to be located based at least in part on a calculated distance from a known loc...