US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on May 20 for "Virtual tethering for autonomous convoy" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,484, issued on May 20, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Virtual tethering for autonomous convoy" was invented by Michael J Reinker (Beverly Hills, Mich.), Ethan Thomas Dietrich (Oak Park, Mich.), Constandi J Shami (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Reza Zarringhalam (Whitby, Canada), Milad Jalaliyazdi (Richmond Hill, Canada) and Benjamin L Williams (Milford, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in a vehicle, includes: providing, via an HMI, a request to be followed indication responsive to receipt of a request to be followed from a following vehicle; providing, via the HMI, a request to enter a tether operati...