US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Track / off road mode UX emissions and fuel label compliant using geofencing" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,912, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Track / off road mode UX emissions and fuel label compliant using geofencing" was invented by Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.), Derek Bier (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Matthew Blake Tranter (Brighton, Mich.), Peter Douglas Kuechler (Canton, Mich.), Brendan F. Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.) and Ryan O'Rourke (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle determines that a vehicle enhanced driving mode has been requested. The vehicle determines whether a condition for engaging such a mode has been met. Additionally, the vehicle offers a user-override, ...