US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 1 for "Vision-based positioning system for a vehicle head restraint" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,534, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vision-based positioning system for a vehicle head restraint" was invented by Nilesh D. Mankame (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Dorel M. Sala (Troy, Mich.), Chin-Hsu Lin (Troy, Mich.), Paul W. Alexander (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and Paul E. Krajewski (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vision-based positioning system for a head restraint in a vehicle includes one or more head restraint actuators, one or more interior-facing cameras, and more controllers that include one or more processors that execute instructions to determine the head position of the occu...