ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,540, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method of imitating target vehicle behavior for automated driving" was invented by Md Mhafuzul Islam (Warren, Mich.), Arun Adiththan (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Yubiao Zhang (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for imitating target vehicle behavior in automated driving includes sensors capturing ego and target vehicle condition information, actuators selectively altering an ego vehicle state, and control modules. The control modules execute a target vehicle imitating (TVI) application. A first TVI control log...