ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,423, issued on April 15, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Systems and methods for transiting between automated driving operational modes" was invented by Reza Zarringhalam (Whitby, Canada), Dorothy Lui (North York, Canada), Jimmy Lu (Markham, Canada), Milad Jalaliyazdi (Richmond Hill, Canada), Kurt L Fischer (Waterfordd, Mich.), Jameson M Collins (Dexter, Mich.) and Zachary Lott (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for managing transitions between operational modes of a vehicle. The system includes a controller configured to, by a processor: automaticall...