US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Nov. 4 for "System and method for calculating a turn cost for route selection purposes" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,534, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for calculating a turn cost for route selection purposes" was invented by Donald K. Grimm (Utica, Mich.) and Iain Cameron (LaSalle, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for selecting a route along an intersection includes receiving map data, receiving vehicle telemetry data crowdsourced from a plurality of remote vehicles. The method includes determining a sight distance using the map data, determining an average vehicle speed along the intersection using the vehicle telemetry data, determining a time available to navigat...