US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Dec. 2 for "System and method for facilitating service vehicle access" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,645, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for facilitating service vehicle access" was invented by Russell A. Patenaude (Macomb Township, Mich.), Matthew Edward Gilbert-Eyres (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Adam Lee Wright (Livonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling movement of a vehicle is provided and includes data processing hardware that performs operations comprising monitoring contextual events in a current, parked location of a vehicle, detection of a contextual event indicating an impending presence of a service vehicle requiring access to ...