ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,023, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Situational external display" was invented by Manoj Kumar Sharma (Troy, Mich.), Akilesh Rajavenkatanarayanan (Macomb, Mich.) and Joseph F. Szczerba (Grand Blanc, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing a message on an external display of a vehicle includes a plurality of onboard sensors adapted to collect data related to an environment surrounding the vehicle and objects within the environment surrounding the vehicle, a system controller, in communication with the plurality of onboard sensors, and adapted to receive, from the p...