US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 30 for "Method and system for adaptive navigation and autonomous driving in response to detecting a restricted object" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,272, issued on June 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Method and system for adaptive navigation and autonomous driving in response to detecting a restricted object" was invented by Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.), John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.), Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.) and Brendan F. Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes defining an original travel route for an autonomous vehicle (AV) to a desired destination, detecting a restricted object in the AV based on an input signal employed to identify an object, defining a conditional route to th...