ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,888, issued on July 28, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Model predictive lane centering control with reference switching and disturbance rejection" was invented by Jackson Barry McGrory (Mississauga, Canada), Avshalom Suissa (Ganei Tikva, Israel), Amirreza Mirbeygi Moghaddam (Toronto), Jimmy Lu (Stouffville, Canada) and Reza Zarringhalam (Whitby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A model predictive lane centering (MPLC) control system with reference switching and disturbance rejection includes: an MPLC application having control logic that utilizes model predictive control (MPC) for selectively tra...