ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,276, issued on Oct. 27.

"Systems and methods for enabling vehicle movement via a removable vehicle work surface" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Jeff Robert Seaman (Petersburg, Mich.), Jenna Rogers (Canton, Mich.), Julie Koltys (Canton, Mich.), Sidhaant Rath (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including a removable work surface and a processor is disclosed. The removable work surface may include a wireless tag that may emit signals at a predefined frequency. The processor may obtain a user request to activate a predefined vehicle mode. Responsiv...