US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 12 for "Water drainage systems and methods for vehicles" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,217, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Water drainage systems and methods for vehicles" was invented by Robert Short (Holly, Mich.), Michael Patrick Kirbitz (Holly, Mich.) and Bryan J. Miller (Davisburg, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for draining water from surfaces of vehicles. The systems may include a mechanism onboard the vehicle configured to adjust a pitch angle or a roll angle of the vehicle, and a controller configured to, by one or more processors, determine a stance of the vehicle relative to gravity, and adjust, with the mechanism, the...