ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,464, issued on May 20, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Ego vehicle having a system for passing a remote vehicle associated with a predicted slowndown event" was invented by Kamran Ali (Troy, Mich.), Donald K. Grimm (Utica, Mich.) and Constandi John Shami (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ego vehicle includes a system having one or more input devices for generating an input signal associated with a remote vehicle. The system further includes a computer having one or more processors programmed to receive the input signal from the input device. The processor is further programmed to dete...