US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 4 for "Automated vehicle control during final assembly and dispatch" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,003, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Automated vehicle control during final assembly and dispatch" was invented by Smruti Panigrahi (Novi, Mich.), Gregory P. Linkowski (Dearborn, Mich.), Meghna Menon (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Mario Anthony Santillo (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling an autonomously operated vehicle along a test track including the extraction of frequency characteristics of a vehicle, the determination of one or more driving profiles based on the frequency characteristics and a deep learning model, the causation of the vehicle to select ...