ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,085, issued on May 26, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"UWB-based intention detection for vehicular applications" was invented by Zijun Han (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Jinzhu Chen (Troy, Mich.), Fan Bai (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Paul E. Krajewski (Troy, Mich.) and Aaron Adler (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for vehicle user prediction includes receiving, in real time, Ultra-wideband (UWB) sensor data from UWB sensors. The UWB sensors include UWB and a UWB tag. The method further includes tracking, in real time, a motion of the UWB tag using the UWB sensor data to determine whether...