US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on Feb. 17 for "Hybrid positioning system for determining a precise position of a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,983, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit) and REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Hybrid positioning system for determining a precise position of a vehicle" was invented by Can Carlak (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Xueshen Liu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Bo Yu (Novi, Mich.), Fan Bai (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Zhuoqing Morley Mao (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid positioning system for a vehicle includes one or more controllers in wireless communication with a plurality of surrounding vehicles located in an environment surrounding the vehicle and a cellular software d...