US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 29 for "System and method for estimating cloud cover from a moving vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,685, issued on July 29, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for estimating cloud cover from a moving vehicle" was invented by Brent Navin Roger Bacchus (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Donald K. Grimm (Utica, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for estimating cloud cover from moving vehicles includes: vehicle mounted sensors communicating with one or more control modules. The control modules have processors, memory, and input/output (I/O) ports. The I/O ports of the control modules of the vehicles communicate with the sensors. The control modules execute program code stored in the ...