ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,650, issued on May 19, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle Wi-Fi sensing with dynamic antenna switching" was invented by Kamran Ali (Troy, Mich.), Joseph Philip McLaine (Troy, Mich.), Sean Taylor Coughlin (Shelby Township, Mich.), Nahel Eshaq (Rochester, Mich.), Duane S. Carper (Davison, Mich.), Lakshmi V. Thanayankizil (Troy, Mich.), Zachary Lemons (Lake Orion, Mich.) and Bilal Charaf (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system includes Wi-Fi antennas positioned to focus on different regions of a vehicle, and a Wi-Fi sensor module. The Wi-Fi sensor module includes Wi-Fi sensor ...