US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 28 for "Iterative prioritized background data transfer for vehicle over-the-air updates" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,846, issued on July 28, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Iterative prioritized background data transfer for vehicle over-the-air updates" was invented by Oliver Lei (Windsor, Canada), Yun Ho Lee (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Jayanthi Rao (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a first iteration, an OTA update is initiated as a background data transfer over a communications network to a plurality of vehicles. Delivery statuses for the OTA update are received from the plurality of vehicles. A vehicle list is updated to remove the vehicles with a completed OTA update based on the delivery sta...