ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,870, issued on July 28, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Predictive frozen scene for uninterrupted operation of automated evasive maneuver systems" was invented by Reza Zarringhalam (Whitby, Canada), Mohammadali Shahriari (Markham, Canada), Milad Jalaliyazdi (Richmond Hill, Canada), Dmitriy Feldman (W Bloomfield, Mich.) and Assaad Krichene (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system including a sensor for detecting an object location, a memory for storing an environment map indicative of a driving environment coordinated with a host vehicle location, a processor configured to es...