ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,300, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Preemptive maneuvering system for viewing a traffic control device" was invented by Kamran Ali (Troy, Mich.), Sayyed Rouhollah Jafari Tafti (Troy, Mich.) and Michael Alan Losh (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preemptive maneuvering system for viewing a status of a traffic control device by one or more cameras of an autonomous vehicle includes one or more controllers, where a moving obstruction is in front of the autonomous vehicle. The one or more controllers execute instructions to instruct the autonomous vehicle to execut...