US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on Nov. 3 for "Temporary traffic restrictions for autonomous vehicle routing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,146, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Temporary traffic restrictions for autonomous vehicle routing" was invented by Yike Li (Fremont, Calif.), Or Cohen (San Francisco) and Yufeng Liu (Moraga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicles detect temporary traffic restrictions and provide information describing the traffic restrictions to a remote computer system. The remote computer system can determine a routing cost for the traffic restriction and alert other vehicles in a fleet of vehicles about the traffic restrictions. The other vehicles can account for the routing cost when determining ...