ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,828, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Weather-informed path planning for a vehicle" was invented by Michael Cui (Winnetka, Calif.), Hyukseong Kwon (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Rodolfo Valiente Romero (Calabasas, Calif.), Andrew Howe (Malibu, Calif.), Alexander Waagen (Malibu, Calif.), Alexei Kopylov (Malibu, Calif.), Marcus James Huber (Saline, Mich.) and Alireza Esna Ashari Esfahani (Daly City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to several aspects, a method for path planning for a vehicle includes determining a predicted trajectory of a remote vehicle. The predicted trajecto...