Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle location accuracy
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Application No.: US14663529Application Date: 2015-03-20
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Publication No.: US09650039B2Publication Date: 2017-05-16
- Inventor: Christopher James Hocking , Kenneth James Miller , Douglas Raymond Martin , William Paul Perkins , Thomas G. Leone
- Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Dearborn
- Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Dearborn
- Agency: Brooks Kushman P.C.
- Agent Franklin A. MacKenzie
- Main IPC: G05D1/00
- IPC: G05D1/00 ; G05D3/00 ; G06F7/00 ; G06F17/00 ; B60W30/02 ; G01S19/24 ; G01S19/49

Abstract:
A controller may maintain a last-known vehicle location, and, when satellite-positioning data is unavailable from a satellite-based positioning-system module, utilize compass data and stability control data to estimate a current vehicle location from the last-known vehicle location. The controller may avoid use of the compass data to estimate the current vehicle location when the vehicle is accelerating or decelerating in East or West headings.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160272196A1 VEHICLE LOCATION ACCURACY Public/Granted day:2016-09-22
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