ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,438, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Autonomous quality test system for a vehicle" was invented by Miguel Arturo Saez (Clarkston, Mich.), John Patrick Spicer (Plymouth, Mich.), Ahmad Almarkhi (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Raihan Haque (Warren, Mich.), Ana Beatriz Luiz da Silva (Gravatai, Brazil) and Thiagarajan Chidambareswaran (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method when executed by data processing hardware causes the data processing hardware to perform operations. The operations include maneuvering, autonomously, a vehicle along a test tra...