US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 23 for "Autonomous vehicle interaction with physical environment" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,636, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Autonomous vehicle interaction with physical environment" was invented by Michael Alan Losh (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Manoj Sharma (Troy, Mich.) and Donald K. Grimm (Utica, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for facilitating interaction between an autonomous vehicle and an external interface in proximity to the autonomous vehicle including a plurality of external sensors positioned on the autonomous vehicle and adapted to collect data relative to an environment surrounding and in proximity to the autonomous vehicle, a controller havin...