US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on March 18 for "Network access control for vehicle" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,384, issued on March 18, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Network access control for vehicle" was invented by Sandeep Vig (Oakland Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle management system for managing access of an application on a vehicle to a wireless network external to the vehicle. The system may include a network usage controller configured for determining a data usage status for the application to be one of allowed and blocked and a network access manager configured for storing a route for the application to access a server of the wireless network when the data usage status is al...