US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 11 for "Rest conducive automated vehicle operation" (Michigan, Texas, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,370, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Rest conducive automated vehicle operation" was invented by Alec M. Wuorinen (Columbus, Ohio), Craig Thomas Douglas (Pflugerville, Texas), Matthew Edward Gilbert-Eyres (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Eric T. Hosey (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Russell A. Patenaude (Macomb Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a vehicle includes entering a rest mode and altering at least one vehicle condition to be more conductive to rest. The method identifies a body position of a first passenger and determines a first body vector from the...