US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Aug. 11 for "Emergency door braking system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,007, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Emergency door braking system" was invented by Besi Rrumbullaku (Rochester, Mich.), Phillip C. Storck (Washington, Mich.) and Bryan Alexander Pena-Cruz (Royal Oak, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emergency door braking system for an autonomous vehicle includes a vehicle processor for storing vehicle data including door latch status and vehicle sliding door location. The emergency door braking system also includes a server communicatively coupled to the vehicle processor and configured to stop a sliding vehicle door at a predetermined vehic...