ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,900, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Requesting and receiving vehicle telemetry data" was invented by Vivek Vijaya Kumar (Shelby Township, Mich.), Donald K. Grimm (Utica, Mich.) and Fan Bai (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for requesting and receiving vehicle telemetry data may include receiving telemetry data from one or more of a plurality of vehicles. The method further may include determining a traffic metric based at least in part on the telemetry data. The method further may include comparing the traffic metric to a traffic metric target. The method fur...