US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Modular vehicle HMI" (California, Michigan, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,694, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Modular vehicle HMI" was invented by Michael John Harmon (Northville, Mich.), Rowell Dizon (Irvine, Calif.), Justin Yang (Boise, Idaho), Bradford Zercoe (San Jose, Calif.), Eryu Shi (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Daniel Smith (Rolling Hills Estates, Calif.) and Shane Patton (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dock for receiving modular programmable widgets includes a body defining a securing channel for receiving the modular programmable widgets, the securing channel being sized to conform with a profile of an attachment body of the rear of...