ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,222, issued on April 21, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Intelligent mobile telecommunications call routing alternative" was invented by Eric T. Hosey (Royal Oak, Mich.), Matthew E. Gilbert-Eyres (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Russell A. Patenaude (Macomb Township, Mich.) and Robert Myers (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a telecommunications system of a vehicle, the system including a mobile telecommunications module embedded in the vehicle, includes determining whether the embedded mobile telecommunications module is better able to communicate with a mobile telecommun...