US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on May 20 for "Systems and methods for detecting contact during a process" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,026, issued on May 20, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Systems and methods for detecting contact during a process" was invented by Joseph Gerard Lovasz (Ortonville, Mich.), Scott A Hucker (Ortonville, Mich.) and David A Hann (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for detecting contact between a manufacturing apparatus and an article being worked upon by the manufacturing apparatus. Vehicles that include the article are also provided. The system includes the manufacturing apparatus configured to perform a process on the article, a signal transmitter conf...