US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on May 12 for "Optimization of vehicle communications employing retransmission request protocol" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,412, issued on May 12, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Optimization of vehicle communications employing retransmission request protocol" was invented by Venkata Naga Siva Vikas Vemuri (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Andrew J MacDonald (Grosse Pointe Park, Mich.) and Scott T. Droste (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of managing communications in a vehicle includes a telematics unit connected to the vehicle. The telematics unit is configured to execute a retransmission request protocol upon receipt of erroneous data. A command unit in communication with the telematics unit, the co...