ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,716, issued on July 22, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle managing system for managing vehicles to be tested-configured and method thereof" was invented by Jesudoss Daniel (Kanata, Canada), Jamal Alezzani (Belleville, Mich.), Jason Michael Miller (Woodhaven, Mich.), John Cardillo (Windsor, Canada), Jeffrey Daugherty (Canton, Mich.) and Christina Metcalf (Wixom, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a vehicle managing system (VMS) and a task managing system (TMS). The VMS is configured to communicate to a selected vehicle and is configured to include a vehicle connection module (...