ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,182, issued on July 8, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method to neutralize the presence of adverse weather artifacts from automotive camera imagery" was invented by Sai Vishnu Aluru (Commerce Township, Mich.) and Daniel Woodall (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided that include obtaining camera images from a camera of a vehicle; obtaining weather data as to a location in which the vehicle is travelling; processing the camera images, via a processor, generating one or more processed frames from the camera images, based on the weather data; and perfo...