US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Dec. 30 for "System and method for detecting accidental service button keypress" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,950, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for detecting accidental service button keypress" was invented by Matthew Edward Gilbert-Eyres (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Russell A. Patenaude (Macomb Township, Mich.), Eric T. Hosey (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Benjamin Tran (Royal Oak, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method that, when executed by data processing hardware, causes data processing hardware to perform operations comprising receiving a service request associated with a service request button of a vehicle, receiving one or more service butt...