US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 4 for "Automated driving system with integrated hands-on and hands-off modes" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,992, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Automated driving system with integrated hands-on and hands-off modes" was invented by Zachary Lott (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Reza Zarringhalam (Whitby, Canada), Milad Jalaliyazdi (Richmond Hill, Canada), Alexander Gene Rath (Fenton, Mich.) and Mariana Correa (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated driving system integrates hands-on and hands-off operational modes for vehicles. The system receives a request from a driver to enable the automated driving system, determines the availability of an adaptive cruise control system, and act...