ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,815, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Pattern-based intelligent personalized choreography for software-defined vehicle" was invented by Luke J. Popiel (Oxford, Mich.), Srinath Venkata Pendikatla (Novi, Mich.), Anthony J. Sumcad (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Gaurav Talwar (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicles, systems and methods for acquiring a choreographic light pattern not previously available to the vehicles are presented. In some aspects, a target vehicle includes a processing system therein, an input interface coupled to the processing system and accessible to a user...