ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,882, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Determining optimal vehicle behavior at intersections" was invented by Vivek Vijaya Kumar (Shelby Township, Mich.), Hariharan Krishnan (Troy, Mich.), Mohammad Naserian (Windsor, Canada), Priya Biby Abraham (Shelby Township, Mich.) and Curtis L. Hay (Petoskey, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining an optimal behavior for a vehicle includes at least one vehicle sensor and a controller in electrical communication with the at least one vehicle sensor. The controller is programmed to determine an ingress stop bar location and an e...