ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,372, issued on April 14, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Optimization of vehicle performance to support vehicle control" was invented by Reza Hajiloo (Richmond Hill, Canada), Seyedeh Asal Nahidi (North York, Canada), Gianmarc Coppola (Richmond Hill, Canada), SeyedAlireza Kasaiezadeh Mahabadi (Novi, Mich.), Mohammad Pournazeri (Etobicoke, Canada) and Christopher Morgan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for interacting with a vehicle user includes an optimization module configured to determine a control strategy for traversing a selected route based on a probabilistic prediction ...