ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,429, issued on March 3, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Systems and methods for configuring plant assembly stations" was invented by Michael R Kaphengst (Leonard, Mich.), Alfred Manser (White Lake, Mich.), Seog-Chan Oh (Troy, Mich.), Joshua Lee Solomon (Berkley, Mich.), Ahmad Almarkhi (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Miguel Arturo Saez (Clarkston, Mich.), Kelsey Van Erp (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Xiang Zhao (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for configuring a plant assembly station at a vehicle manufacturing plant. Plant sensor data generated by a plant sensor syst...