US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on June 24 for "Vehicle-based air quality and noise level sampling for use with offboard mapping software" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,653, issued on June 24, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle-based air quality and noise level sampling for use with offboard mapping software" was invented by Sharon Hornstein (Pardes Hanna, Israel) and Klaus Trangbaek (Ein Vered, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A host vehicle for use with a remote processing station (RPS) configured to generate a pollution report from a global set of pollution data includes a vehicle body, a vehicle telematics unit (VTU), a sensor suite, and an electronic control unit (ECU). The sensor suite includes acoustic and/or an air quality sensors respectively config...