ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,749, issued on March 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC.

"Methods and systems for sensor fusion for traffic intersection assist" was invented by Praneeth Nelapati (Novi, Mich.), Jeffrey A. Clark (Macomb Township, Mich.) and Kevin Hoang (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for interpreting traffic information for a vehicle. Sensor data is collected from at least one first sensor device of the vehicle. At least one relevant object is determined within the sensor data based on a window defined by a plurality of ranges and associated elevations, wherein the pluralit...