US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 2 for "Method and system for friction-aware impact avoidance" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,898, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Method and system for friction-aware impact avoidance" was invented by Jackson Barry McGrory (Mississauga, Canada), Paul Guillermo Otanez (Franklin, Mich.), Ravichandran Manogaran (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Mohammadali Shahriari (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method controlling a vehicle includes detecting that an object is along a path of the vehicle and within a predetermined distance from the vehicle, in response to detecting the object that is along the path of the vehicle and within the predetermined distance from the vehicle, ...