ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,527, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Risk informed route planner" was invented by Manoj Kumar Sharma (Troy, Mich.), Donald K. Grimm (Utica, Mich.) and Joseph F. Szczerba (Grand Blanc, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing an alert to an occupant within a vehicle includes a system controller in communication with a plurality of onboard sensors, other vehicles and infrastructure systems, an augmented reality head up display system and a full windshield display system, each adapted to project images onto an inner surface of a windshield of the vehicle, the system con...