ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,414, issued on June 10, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Methods and systems for tracking of attached objects" was invented by Siva Chinthalapudi (Novi, Mich.), Dmitriy Feldman (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Amanpal S Grewal (Novi, Mich.) and Ibrahim Riba (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for tracking attached objects for controlling a vehicle. The method includes receiving, by a processor, sensor data of an environment associated with the vehicle that includes an object. The method includes determining, based on the sensor data, whether the object corresponds to an attached o...