US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Oct. 21 for "Merging lane line maps for a vehicle" (Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,997, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Merging 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 merging lane line maps includes determining a road topology of a road segment. The method also includes identifying a plurality of fused points based at least in part on the road topology and based at least in part on a first lane line map of the road segm...