US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Oct. 7 for "Navigation system employing zones of intent" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,987, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Navigation system employing zones of intent" was invented by Danilo Elia Gurovich (Marine City, Mich.) and Paul E. Krajewski (Warren, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for efficient fulfilment of user needs that dynamically arise during a trip are described. Fulfilling the user needs includes identifying the need, negotiating a plurality of attributes related to satisfying the need, determining at least one geotemporal zone of intent for satisfying the need based on a vector of intended travel of the vehicle and the ...