ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,787, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Collaborative perception system for creating a cooperative perception map" was invented by Ruiyang Zhu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Shuqing Zeng (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Mohammad Naserian (Windsor, Canada) and Fan Bai (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collaborative perception system that creates a cooperative perception map based on perception data collected by a plurality of vehicles and includes one or more central computers in wireless communication with one or more controllers of each of the plurality of vehicles located in an enviro...