US Patent Issued to Transportation IP Holdings on July 21 for "System and method for determining vehicle position by triangulation" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,644, issued on July 21, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"System and method for determining vehicle position by triangulation" was invented by Andrew Ryan Staats (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Stuart John Barr (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining the location of a vehicle when GNSS signals are not available use triangulation between one or two radio transmitters and, respectively, two or one radio receivers mounted on the vehicle. The distance between each radio transmitter and/or each radio receiver can be determined according a phase difference between rece...