US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 21 for "System and method for vehicle occupancy detection" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,627, issued on July 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for vehicle occupancy detection" was invented by Kamran Ali (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting one or more occupants in a vehicle may include a plurality of wireless modules and a controller in electrical communication with the plurality of wireless modules. The controller is programmed to perform one or more sensing rounds. Each of the one or more sensing rounds includes communication between at least two of the plurality of wireless modules. The controller is programmed to determine a presence of...