US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on July 21 for "Metrics for modeling lane closure zones" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,705, issued on July 21, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Metrics for modeling lane closure zones" was invented by Fu-Chun Yeh (San Diego), Changkai Zhou (Mountain View, Calif.) and Shuqin Xie (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining metrics for lane closure zone detection and evaluating the performance of lane closure zone detection. A lane closure zone can include any area where a lane is closed off. The changes to the typical travel paths for vehicles on the roadway can indicate that vehicles are to travel along a different path than that indicated on the maps the...