ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,100, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Robust odometry architecture and methodology" was invented by Ami Woo (Calgary, Canada), Khizar A. Qureshi (Pickering, Canada), Matan Yeger (Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Israel), Hassan Askari (Thornhill, Canada) and Mohammadali Shahriari (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a plurality of sensors and one or more controllers collectively programmed to execute the following instructions: estimate odometry of the vehicle based on sensor data from the plurality of sensors, to produce a plurality of odometry estimates; monitor inte...