US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Nov. 11 for "Augmented in-vehicle communication" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,517, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Augmented in-vehicle communication" was invented by Maxim Burgman (Grand Blanc, Mich.) and Gaurav Talwar (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication augmentation system includes a camera, a transceiver and a computer. The camera is operation to record an image of users. The transceiver is operational to receive inbound messages from wireless devices. The inbound messages include an input content. The computer is operational to store registrations of the users, determine user locations where the users are located in response to faci...