US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Oct. 14 for "Detecting thermal event spread probability and alerting vehicles / people in affected area" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,286, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Detecting thermal event spread probability and alerting vehicles / people in affected area" was invented by Benjamin Tran (Royal Oak, Mich.), Eric T. Hosey (Royal Oak, Mich.), Russell A. Patenaude (Macomb Township, Mich.) and Matthew E. Gilbert-Eyres (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process and system to detect and provide notification of a potential effect of a thermal event related to a vehicle and a process for updating thermal event probability of a specific area based on an effect of a vehicle are provided. Identifying...