US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 11 for "Intelligent windshield wiper control systems and methods" (Texas, Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,325, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Intelligent windshield wiper control systems and methods" was invented by Matthew Edward Gilbert-Eyres (Rochester, Mich.), Alec M. Wuorinen (Columbus, Ohio) and Craig Thomas Douglas (Pflugerville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for windshield wipers of a vehicle includes: a gaze module configured to determine a present gaze of a driver toward a front windshield of the vehicle based on a first image from a first camera facing the driver; an obstruction zone module configured to, based on the present gaze, determine an obstruc...