ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,126, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for crowdsourced detection of dynamic road features" was invented by Vivek Vijaya Kumar (Shelby Township, Mich.), Bo Yu (Troy, Mich.), Carolyn Heather MacLeod (Thornhill, Canada), Carl P. Darukhanavala (Royal Oak, Mich.), Joon Hwang (Pflugerville, Texas), Donald K. Grimm (Utica, Mich.) and Fan Bai (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for crowdsourced detection of a dynamic road feature includes detecting the dynamic road feature using a sensor of a vehicle and communicating with a dynamic road feature databas...