US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on April 29 for "Vehicle systems and methods for autonomous route following" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,132, issued on April 29, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle systems and methods for autonomous route following" was invented by David Allen Craig (Owasso, Okla.), Quan Zhang (Toronto), David E. Bojanowski (Clarkston, Mich.) and Yan Nok Cheng (Oshawa, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicles and related systems and methods are provided for controlling a vehicle in an autonomous operating mode. One method involves obtaining navigation information for a route for the vehicle from a navigation system, transforming the navigation information into data points defining an upcoming trajectory of the ...