ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,551, issued on July 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Adaptive vehicle control responsive to changing driving behaviors" was invented by Brian Wallace Stop (Canton, Mich.), Adil Nizam Siddiqui (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system detects the occurrence of a vehicle event designated as a trigger. The system obtains interaction data, representing user interface interactions with a user interface of a vehicle, recorded by the vehicle for a predefined time period leading to the event. Further, the system, for any obtained interaction d...