US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 1 for "Steering wheel control for imminent vehicle collisions" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,628, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Steering wheel control for imminent vehicle collisions" was invented by Constandi John Shami (Bahama, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system for reducing an injury risk of a driver in a vehicle, includes a control module configured to detect whether a collision is imminent with respect to the vehicle, determine a hand position of the driver on a steering wheel in the vehicle, in response to detecting the imminent collision, decouple the steering wheel and a road wheel assembly in the vehicle to allow both to move independently of eac...