US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 18 for "Virtualized test environment for vehicle topologies with multiple electronic vehicle control units" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,814, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Virtualized test environment for vehicle topologies with multiple electronic vehicle control units" was invented by Blaise Lengrand (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive a vehicle topology and may generate predefined processes for components of the vehicle topology. The device may provide, to a user device, data identifying the predefined processes, and may receive, from the user device, user-defined processes and a selection of particular predefined processes for execution of a test. The device may identify con...