ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,855, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Control systems for autonomous vehicle deployment and vehicle cooling priority" was invented by Shawn Mcgrady (Holly, Mich.), Susan A. Dombrowski (Milford, Mich.) and Aaron B. Bloom (Royal Oak, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method for automated deployment of autonomous vehicles includes identifying multiple autonomous vehicles available for deployment to execute a requested automated driving route, obtaining vehicle status parameters for each of the multiple autonomous vehicles, wherein the vehicle status parameters include at le...