US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 18 for "System and method for automatically activating a turn signal of a vehicle" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,218, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for automatically activating a turn signal of a vehicle" was invented by Minwoo Park (Bupyeong-gu, South Korea), Rakyung Gwak (Seoul, South Korea), Bongbum Back (Incheon, South Korea), Hyoungsuk Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Daniel Pinheiro Carlesimo (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically activating a turn signal includes monitoring a vehicle occupant of a vehicle with a driver monitoring system. The driver monitoring system includes at least one camera and is configured to determine a po...