ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,935, issued on April 7, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Predictive variable velocity model-based lateral control for robust automated driving" was invented by Mohammadali Shahriari (Markham, Canada), Reza Zarringhalam (Whitby, Canada), Mohammed Raju Hossain (Markham, Canada), Ashraf Abualfellat (Grand Blanc, Mich.) and Brian Porto (Wixom, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for vehicle lane centering includes determining a speed profile over a predetermined period of time to maintain a predetermined speed while a vehicle moves within a lane of a road. The road has a road curve. The predetermi...