ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,121, issued on March 18, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Systems and methods for employing driver input for adapting path planning in lane centering applications" was invented by Xuefei Yang (Northville, Mich.), Paul A Adam (Milford, Mich.), Tetyana V Mamchuk (Walled Lake, Mich.), Brian Porto (Wixom, Mich.) and Ashraf Abualfellat (Grand Blanc, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for controlling a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes: determining, by a processor, that a lane centering feature is active in the vehicle; identifying, by the processor, a pattern o...