US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on April 29 for "Simultaneous localization and mapping based vehicle navigation systems enhanced by driver interactions" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,129, issued on April 29, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Simultaneous localization and mapping based vehicle navigation systems enhanced by driver interactions" was invented by Yuan Zhang (Pudong, China), Wenyuan Qi (Shanghai) and Tianxiang Cao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of soliciting an occupant intervention for a simultaneous localization and mapping-based navigation system. A vehicle path plan and a motion control instruction are created and a suspected obstacle in a drive path is identified, wherein the drive path provides a portion of the vehicle path plan. The method further...