ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,829, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Selective vehicle slowdown" was invented by Daniel S. Glaser (Novi, Mich.), Joseph F. Szczerba (Grand Blanc, Mich.), Sri Krishna Divya Pemmaraju (Plymouth, Mich.) and Yi Guo Glaser (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for initiating an automated slowdown procedure within a vehicle includes a system controller adapted to detect a request for initiation of an automated slowdown procedure, a human machine interface (HMI), wherein the system controller is adapted to prompt, via the HMI, the driver of the vehicle for verification to ini...