ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,879, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle human-machine interface alert generation based on occluded regions" was invented by Rouhollah Sayed Jafari (Troy, Mich.), Stefano Bonasera (Royal Oak, Mich.), Daniel Aguilar Marsillach (Chicago) and Joseph F. Szczerba (Grand Blanc, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example vehicle control system includes a plurality of sensors, a driver monitoring system, a human-machine interface configured to provide at least one of a visual alert, a haptic alert and an audio alert to the driver, and a vehicle control module configured to identify at...