ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,765, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System for fusing two or more versions of map data" was invented by Gui Chen (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Bo Yu (Troy, Mich.), Shuqing Zeng (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Fan Bai (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Joon Hwang (Pflugerville, Texas), Vivek Vijaya Kumar (Shelby Township, Mich.), Mason David Gemar (Cedar Park, Texas) and Carl P. Darukhanavala (Royal Oak, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for fusing two or more versions of map data together includes one or more central computers that receive road network data representing a road network for a pr...