US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 14 for "Systems and methods for defining a sensor layout for pallet routing in a manufacturing environment" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,035, issued on April 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for defining a sensor layout for pallet routing in a manufacturing environment" was invented by Harshal Maske (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Devesh Upadhyay (Canton, Mich.), Jim Birley (Bingham Farms, Mich.), Dimitar Petrov Filev (Novi, Mich.), Justin Miller (Berkley, Mich.) and Robert Bennett (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes defining a sensor layout of a digital twin based on sensor parameters and routing control locations of the digital twin. The method includes simulating a manufacturing routi...