US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on April 22 for "Vehicle system and method for adjusting interior control settings based on driver emotion and environmental context" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,727, issued on April 22, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle system and method for adjusting interior control settings based on driver emotion and environmental context" was invented by Aravind Gangumalla (Novi, Mich.), Vikramaditya Nimmagadda (Wixom, Mich.) and Arun Adiththan (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for operating a vehicle having an interior control setting system with a computer. One or more occupant input devices generate an occupant input signal associated with sensor data, which indicates a total number of occupants, a classification, and a c...