ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,685, issued on July 7, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"System and method of actor-based map attribute generation" was invented by Rasoul Salehi (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Brent Navin Roger Bacchus (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Michael Alan Losh (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of actor-based map attribute generation and, more particularly, geometrical attribute and semantic attribute generation. A computer-implemented method that, when executed by data processing hardware, causes the data processing hardware to perform operations comprising gathering sensor data via a ...