ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,698, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).
"Automated vehicle seats" was invented by Christopher Matthew D'Eramo (Bethel Park, Pa.), Nicolas Bryan Chan (Detroit) and Janna Urbanski (Dearborn, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, tangible non-transitory computer-readable media, and devices associated with the operation of a vehicle are provided. For example a vehicle computing system can receive occupancy data that includes information associated with occupancy of a vehicle that includes seats. One or more states of the vehicle can be determined. The states of the vehicle can include a...