ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,885, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle lateral positioning on a non-divided road" was invented by Harsh K. Patel (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Paul A. Adam (Milford, Mich.), Xuefei Yang (Northville, Mich.), Brian M. Porto (Novi, Mich.) and Christopher M. Churay (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling lateral positioning in a host vehicle includes a controller having a processor and tangible, non-transitory memory. The host vehicle is located on a host lane defined by a host lane center. The controller is adapted to determine if a first and se...