US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Aug. 11 for "Vehicle including aerodynamic device control and system" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,440, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle including aerodynamic device control and system" was invented by Alexander N. Nastov (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Carlos Martinez (LaSalle, Canada) and Abdulrahman Al-Shanoon (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including a first aerodynamic device extending from a body of the vehicle and movable between an extended position and a retracted position and an aerodynamic control module configured to determine wind conditions during forward movement of the vehicle and to move the first aerodynamic device between the extended positio...