ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,484, issued on March 17, was assigned to u-blox AG (Thalwil, Switzerland).
"Hybrid odometry" was invented by Alexander Somieski (Thalwil, Switzerland), Yannick Stebler (Thalwil, Switzerland) and Tubanur Ozturk (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for odometry are disclosed. A previous position estimate and a current position estimate for a device are obtained. A current velocity estimate for the device is also obtained. A first distance estimate is calculated based on the position estimates, and a second distance estimate is calculated based on the velocity estimate. These two distance estimates are c...