US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on May 12 for "Method and system of lane-level road congestion identification and forecasting for navigation application" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,953, issued on May 12, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Method and system of lane-level road congestion identification and forecasting for navigation application" was invented by Fan Bai (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Michael Wahlstrom (Wolverine Lake, Mich.), Donald K. Grimm (Utica, Mich.), Paul E. Krajewski (Troy, Mich.) and Richard Gordon (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for lane-level road congestion identification and forecasting includes identifying lane-level road congestion using Gaussian mixture modeling, predicting lane-level road congestion using a 2D Markov chain, and identifying r...