US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on June 16 for "System and method extending driver engagement to remote device for autonomous hand-off and eyes-off features" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,733, issued on June 16, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method extending driver engagement to remote device for autonomous hand-off and eyes-off features" was invented by Boris Tsukerman (Ein Yahav, Israel) and Amir Tsvitov (Ness Ziona, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to enhance performance and usability of a state machine implementation by an electronic control unit within a vehicle having autonomous operating capabilities is provided. The state machine provides an escalation state used to exit from status quo. The vehicle driver has a mobile device within the vehicle. The sy...