US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 19 for "Systems and methods for providing for manual driving of a vehicle with selectable transition between a two-seat configuration and a four-seat configuration" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,284, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Systems and methods for providing for manual driving of a vehicle with selectable transition between a two-seat configuration and a four-seat configuration" was invented by William Cavalcante Araujo (Claremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing manual driving capabilities to an operator of a vehicle are provided. The systems include a screen within the vehicle configured to selectively transition between closed and open configurations by moving the screen and thereby cover or uncover, respectively, an opening ...