US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 15 for "Establishing a connection between a mobile device and a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,216, issued on July 15, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Establishing a connection between a mobile device and a vehicle" was invented by Mohamed A. Layouni (Fraser, Mich.), Markus Jochim (Troy, Mich.) and Thomas M. Forest (Macomb, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for establishing a wireless connection between a mobile device and a vehicle includes a human-machine interface (HMI), a vehicle communication system, where the vehicle communication system includes a wireless connection transceiver, a speaker, a microphone, a controller in electrical communication with the HMI, the vehicle commun...