US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 14 for "Weather detection for a vehicle environment" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,854, issued on April 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Weather detection for a vehicle environment" was invented by Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.), Robert Schroeter (Livonia, Mich.), Jake Schwartz (Dearborn, Mich.) and Anthony Dwayne Cooprider (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weather detection system for a vehicle includes a weather sensor configured to sense an environmental condition of a region external to the vehicle in an operable state, an actuator for controlling a response to the environmental condition, a network interface configured to access weather data f...