US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 29 for "Vehicle systems and methods for identification and deduplication of roadway objects" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,397, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle systems and methods for identification and deduplication of roadway objects" was invented by Vivek Vijaya Kumar (Shelby Township, Mich.), Abdulrahman Al-Shanoon (Toronto), Mason David Gemar (Cedar Park, Texas) and Joon Hwang (Pflugerville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system includes a vehicle control module of a vehicle and a control module. The control module is configured to receive data from vehicles over a period of time, cluster the received data into groups, detect at least one set of duplicate groups of the grou...