US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on March 25 for "Haptic cues to help locate seat controls and belt buckles" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,973, issued on March 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Haptic cues to help locate seat controls and belt buckles" was invented by Kamran Ali (Troy, Mich.), Donald K. Grimm (Utica, Mich.), Anna M. Lusk (Lake Orion, Mich.) and Maria del Mar Davila (Clawson, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to locate seat controls and belt buckles includes a vehicle having at least one seat. A seat belt system is provided with the at least one seat having a seat belt, a belt latch and a seat belt buckle. A haptic device is provided with the seat belt system, the haptic device generating a haptic signal." ...