US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Sept. 1 for "Smart vehicle systems and control logic with virtual rumble strip functions for intelligent traffic management" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,650, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Smart vehicle systems and control logic with virtual rumble strip functions for intelligent traffic management" was invented by Nilesh D. Mankame (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Babak Makkinejad (Troy, Mich.) and Paul E. Krajewski (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are smart vehicle systems with control logic that provision virtual rumble strip functionality, methods for making/using such systems, and vehicles equipped with such systems. A method of operating a vehicle includes a vehicle controller wirelessly receiving location data indicat...