US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on April 14 for "Semi-truck detection and avoidance" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,008, issued on April 14, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Semi-truck detection and avoidance" was invented by Andrew Wassef (Novi, Mich.), Emily Frances Wolfangel (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Ashraf Abualfellat (Grand Blanc, Mich.), Christopher Ratliff (Linden, Mich.) and Mohammadali Shahriari (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein provide a method for detecting and avoiding a semi-truck. The method includes detecting the semi-truck in a lane adjacent to a host lane occupied by a host vehicle. The method further includes analyzing behavior of the semi-truck to determine ...