ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,940, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Resource sharing among vehicle fleets using bidding mechanism" was invented by Ariel Telpaz (Givat Haim Meuhad, Israel), Zahy Bnaya (Petach Tikva, Israel), Refael Blanca (West Bloomfield Township, Mich.), Nadav Baron (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Neeraj R. Gautama (Whitby, Canada) and Laura Chmielewski (Beverly Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for resource sharing among vehicle fleets using a bidding mechanism is presented. A fleet scheduler generates a bidding proposal for one or more unassigned tasks associated with a fi...