US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on July 21 for "Automated fleet-connected cleaning and inspection system" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,365, issued on July 21, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Automated fleet-connected cleaning and inspection system" was invented by Kenneth Ferguson (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Jeffrey Brandon (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automated cleaning and inspection of electric vehicles. The systems and methods for automated cleaning eliminate the need for human interaction with the vehicle and/or cleaning system. Vehicle cleaning is typically a heavily manual task that consumes operation personnel time and resources. Providing automated systems and methods for vehicle cleaning can reduce hu...