US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on May 6 for "Optimal engagement of automated features to assist incapacited drivers" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,198, issued on May 6, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Optimal engagement of automated features to assist incapacited drivers" was invented by Khizar Ahmad Qureshi (Pickering, Canada), Mehdi Abroshan (Waterloo, Canada), Reza Zarringhalam (Whitby, Canada), Mohammadali Shahriari (Markham, Canada) and Apral Singh Hara (Lasalle, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided that include one or more sensors configured to obtain sensor data pertaining to both a driver of a vehicle and an environment surrounding the vehicle; and a processor that is coupled to the one or more sensors an...