ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,443, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Preferred vehicle lane identification for vehicle control along a navigation route" was invented by Abhinay Ganpatrao Ghodekar (Maple, Canada) and Jing Zhao (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system includes a vehicle control module and a control module. The control module is configured to receive a navigation route, receive a plurality of road segments defined by polygons, identify a set of road segments from the plurality of road segments based on a distance between one or more waypoints of the navigation route and the pol...