ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,502, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Systems and techniques for reducing disturbance from autonomous vehicle activity" was invented by Jeffrey Robert Brandon (Phoenix) and Domenico Rusciano (Concord, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for mitigating potential disturbance can include obtaining at least one of wireless activity data associated with a geographic area, vehicle traffic data associated with the geographic area, and sound data associated with the geographic area; determining, based on one or more of the wireless activity data, the vehicle traffic data, and the sound d...