US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on March 25 for "Sensory inducement strategies for vehicle systems" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,687, issued on March 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Sensory inducement strategies for vehicle systems" was invented by Karl Bo Albert Mikkelsen (Peachland, Canada), Lynn Varghese (Novi, Mich.), Thomas M. Sherman (Pinckney, Mich.) and Justin Bunnell (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for inducing a vehicle occupant to bring a vehicle to a stop includes receiving malfunction data. The malfunction data is indicative of an impending vehicular malfunction will occur in a vehicle; determining that the impending vehicular malfunction will occur using the malfunction data. T...