US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Sept. 9 for "System and method of inhibiting and restoring ignition of a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,806, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"System and method of inhibiting and restoring ignition of a vehicle" was invented by Anthony J. Sumcad (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Suchinder K. Govindan (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Russell A. Patenaude (Macomb Township, Mich.), Matthew Edward Gilbert-Eyres (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Benjamin Tran (Royal Oak, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method that, when executed by data processing hardware, cause the data processing hardware to perform operations comprising enabling remote ignition blocking for a first duration, det...