US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods for responding to detected emergency vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,505, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for responding to detected emergency vehicles" was invented by Lucio Otavio Marchioro Rech (San Mateo, Calif.), Eric Michael Lujan (San Francisco) and Yang Tian (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for responding to detected emergency vehicles. In some aspects, a method includes generating an emergency vehicle (EMV) detection signal based on sensor signals of an autonomous vehicle (AV); determining, based on the EMV detection signal, whether remote assistance (RA) is invoked for the EMV s...