US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Jan. 13 for "Adaptive vehicle occupant detection and monitoring" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,202, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Adaptive vehicle occupant detection and monitoring" was invented by Manoj Kumar Sharma (Troy, Mich.), Akilesh Rajavenkatanarayanan (Macomb, Mich.), Mohammad Naserian (Windsor, Canada) and Maureen Elizabeth August (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for increasing occupant comfort and safety in a vehicle may include detecting an occupant in the vehicle using one or more of a plurality of occupant monitoring sensors. The method further may include determining an occupant comfort and safety level of the occupant in the...