ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,649, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Management of set of vehicles for assistance at an event" was invented by Russell A. Patenaude (Macomb Township, Mich.), Matthew E. Gilbert-Eyres (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Eric T. Hosey (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Adam L. Wright (Livonia, Mich.) and Matthew Neely (Rochester, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for managing a vehicle set includes a controller having a processor and tangible, non-transitory memory on which instructions are recorded. The vehicle set includes a plurality of autonomous vehicles each having a respective telematics...