US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 2 for "Systems and methods for a cleaning process of targeted surfaces" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,242, issued on June 2, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for a cleaning process of targeted surfaces" was invented by Gary David Farquhar (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Mitchell Goepel (Lake Orion, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including the receipt of a set of data associated with a surface condition of a vehicle, a determination of an extent of an instance of one or more imperfections upon a surface of the vehicle made by an artificial intelligence system, and an update to a pathway followed by one or more robots based on the determination of the extent of the instanc...