US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on March 31 for "Protected idle system for a vehicle" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,753, issued on March 31, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Protected idle system for a vehicle" was invented by Rohit Uttam (Saline, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method when executed by data processing hardware causes the data processing hardware to perform operations. The operations include detecting a park mode of a vehicle equipped with an automatic protected idle function and activating the automatic protected idle function automatically in response to the detected park mode. A state of a control switch associated with the automatic protected idle function is determine...