US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Sept. 9 for "System and method for optimizing user pickup for an autonomous vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,862, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for optimizing user pickup for an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Matthew E. Gilbert-Eyres (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Adam L. Wright (Livonia, Mich.), Matthew Neely (Rochester, Mich.), Eric T. Hosey (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Russell A. Patenaude (Macomb Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an autonomous vehicle. The method includes collecting user data regarding a user of the autonomous vehicle and analyzing the user data to assign a pickup score to the user for determining when to relocate ...