US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on March 17 for "Method and system of road driving optimization with decoupling of vehicle status and traffic factors" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,839, issued on March 17, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Method and system of road driving optimization with decoupling of vehicle status and traffic factors" was invented by Yuan Zhang (Pudong, China) and Lujia Xu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of road driving optimization, having vehicle sensors configured to collect external sensor data, vehicle-state data, and communications data; a control module configured to analyze the collected data to detect a trigger event, a status of a target vehicle, an achievable speed range, and instant traction force; a decoupling estimat...