US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Oct. 14 for "System and method for positioning a vehicle in a lane" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,310, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for positioning a vehicle in a lane" was invented by Namal P. Kumara (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Tetyana V. Mamchuk (Walled Lake, Mich.), Christopher M. Churay (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Paul A. Adam (Milford, Mich.), Xuefei Yang (Northville, Mich.), Jeffrey S. Parks (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Riley Stroven (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling lateral positioning in a host vehicle. The system includes a controller adapted to identify targets surrounding a planned path with at least one distance sensor on...