US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on May 27 for "Projected security zone" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,876, issued on May 27, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Projected security zone" was invented by Pallavi Gautam (Royal Oak, Mich.), Joseph F. Szczerba (Grand Blanc, Mich.), Robert C. Jablonski (Rochester, Mich.) and Manoj Kumar Sharma (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing a projected security zone adjacent a vehicle includes an external projector in communication with a system controller and adapted to project a first graphic onto a surface adjacent the vehicle, the first graphic defining a pre-determined security zone, and a plurality of onboard sensors in communication wit...