US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on March 18 for "Autonomous racetrack driver coach and demonstrator" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,156, issued on March 18, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Autonomous racetrack driver coach and demonstrator" was invented by Daniel Yitzhak Rubin (Holon, Israel) and Alon Capua (Hulda, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an autonomous racetrack driver coach and demonstrator in an autonomous vehicle employing operating systems for propulsion and maneuvering includes identifying a road course and mapping a velocity profile and a trajectory for the vehicle via a remote configurator. The trajectory defines a vehicle path around the road course and with the velocity profile minimize...