ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,951, issued on April 7, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Audible cue system for a vehicle" was invented by Omer Tsimhoni (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Song He (Troy, Mich.) and Frank C. Valeri (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audible cue system for a vehicle includes data processing hardware and memory hardware in communication with the data processing hardware. The memory hardware stores instructions that when executed on the data processing hardware cause the data processing hardware to perform operations including receiving, at a first electronic control unit (ECU), one or more vehicle dat...