ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,237, issued on May 6, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Trajectory planning system for ensuring maneuvers to avoid moving obstacles exist for an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Daniel Aguilar Marsillach (Detroit), Yubiao Zhang (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Upali P. Mudalige (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trajectory planning system for an autonomous vehicle includes one or more controllers in electronic communication with one or more external vehicle networks that collect data with respect to one or more moving obstacles located in an environment surrounding the autonomous ve...