US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Oct. 27 for "Determining optimal departure time for a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,006, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Determining optimal departure time for a vehicle" was invented by Vivek Vijaya Kumar (Shelby Township, Mich.), Donald K. Grimm (Utica, Mich.) and Fan Bai (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing traffic information to an occupant of a vehicle may include identifying a node location in an environment surrounding the vehicle. The node location is a location of an intersection between a first road having a first road class upon which the vehicle is traveling and a second road having a second road class. The first road c...