ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,188, issued on April 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle proactive interaction system for occupant awareness including timing and interaction style selection" was invented by Ron Hecht (Ra'anana, Israel), Ohad Akiva (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Omer Tsimhoni (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Ariel Telpaz (Givat Haim Meuhad, Israel), Claudia Goldman-Shenhar (Mevasseret Zion, Israel) and Gershon Celniker (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assistance system includes: a perception module configured to collect sensor data including data tracking behavior of a vehicle occupant in a host vehicle,...