ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,558, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit) and TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY (Lubbock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for identifying and alerting of footprint over-cycle risks on multi-product general assembly lines" was invented by Dennis J. Carroll (Leander, Texas), Charles Alvin Wiley (Austin, Texas), Sai Rohit Kumar Danda (Dublin), Vikram Jeet (Greystones, Ireland), Paerhati Remutula (Limerick, Ireland), Kegan Austin Clark (Lake St. Louis, Mo.), Micheal Morrow (St. Peters, Mo.), David Gutman (Lubbock, Texas), Allan Gurwicz (Lubbock, Texas) and George Fernandes (Lubbock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...