US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 1 for "Preventing improper vehicle usage" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,629, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Preventing improper vehicle usage" was invented by Matthew Edward Gilbert-Eyres (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Eric T. Hosey (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Russell A. Patenaude (Macomb Township, Mich.) and Noah Stone (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system within a vehicle for detection and prevention of improper usage of the vehicle includes a plurality of onboard sensors and a wireless communication module, each in communication with a system controller and adapted to collect data related to the presence of a high pedestrian densit...