US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on May 13 for "Vehicle systems and methods for autonomous operation using driver attention" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,854, issued on May 13, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle systems and methods for autonomous operation using driver attention" was invented by Christopher Michael Churay (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Paul A Adam (Milford, Mich.), Reza Zarringhalam (Whitby, Canada) and Milad Jalaliyazdi (Richmond Hill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicles and related systems and methods are provided for controlling a vehicle in an autonomous operating mode. One method involves a controller associated with a vehicle identifying a visual attention state associated with a driver of the vehicle based at least in...