US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Nov. 25 for "Crowd-sourcing lane line maps for a vehicle" (Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,781, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Crowd-sourcing lane line maps for a vehicle" was invented by Bo Yu (Troy, Mich.), Gui Chen (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Fan Bai (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Shuqing Zeng (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Joon Hwang (Pflugerville, Texas) and Mason David Gemar (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for crowd-sourcing lane line map data for a vehicle includes receiving a plurality of observations. The method also includes classifying the plurality of observations into a plurality of observation categories. Each of the plurality of observation categ...