ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,156, issued on May 6, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Fire resistant sleeves" was invented by Alonso Samuel Chavez (San Mateo Atenco, Mexico), Julio Alberto Moreno (San Luis Potosi, Mexico), Octavio Addiel Pichardo (Celaya, Mexico), Ravi Shankar Pandey (Bangalore, India), Marcus J Baker (Columbiaville, Mich.), Andrew Thomas Cunningham (Cambridge, Mass.) and Kyle Sinko (Rochester, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Protective sleeves, kits-of-parts for manufacturing sleeves, and methods for manufacturing sleeves are provided. An exemplary protective sleeve includes an inlet end connector; intermediate...