US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 1 for "Lane edge fusion system for an autonomous vehicle" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,210, issued on July 1, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Lane edge fusion system for an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Brent Navin Roger Bacchus (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lane edge fusion system for an autonomous vehicle includes one or more controllers executing instructions to receive perception data and map data of a roadway the autonomous vehicle is traveling along. The one or more controllers derive a plurality of map lane edge points from the map data and a plurality of perception lane edge points from the perception data and select an evaluation point based on t...