ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,540, issued on June 2, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle control based on pathway paving status and location telemetry" was invented by Chandra Sekhar Talluri (Brighton, Mich.), Shu Chen (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Donald K. Grimm (Utica, Mich.), David A Craig (Owasso, Okla.) and Darren Ghiso (Birmingham, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling the operation of a vehicle includes a controller and a command unit. The command unit is adapted to generate a respective paving status of a respective pathway based on aggregated vehicle trajectories of a plurality of vehicles traversin...