US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Feb. 10 for "System and method for providing passenger exit assistance" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,388, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for providing passenger exit assistance" was invented by Jongho Hwang (Busan, South Korea), Suyoung Ha (Seoul, South Korea), Youngsoo Im (Incheon, South Korea) and Chihyun Cho (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method that, when executed by data processing hardware, cause the data processing hardware to perform operations is provided. The operations include obtaining a rear passenger status, obtaining a seat belt status, obtaining a door lock status, determining whether exit assistance con...