ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,565, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Emergency vehicle interactions using external triggers" was invented by Anuj Kaul (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Kunal Roy (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject disclosure relates to technologies for vehicle interactions with emergency vehicles. A process of the disclosed technologies can include steps for receiving a command from an emergency vehicle identifying an autonomous vehicle and initiating actions to cause the autonomous vehicle identified by the emergency vehicle to obey the command."

The patent was filed on Sept. 6, 2023, unde...