ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,226, issued on June 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method for inferring vehicle state based on supply voltage changes" was invented by Brandon Beauvais (Dearborn, Mich.), Andrew Stoscup (Wixom, Mich.), Daniel A. Gabor (Canton, Mich.) and Charles Everett Badger II (Westland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of inferring a vehicle state for control of a vehicle component based on the vehicle state inference, the vehicle may include a first electromechanical brake module operably coupled to first wheel-end brakes of a first wheel and a second electromechanical brake module...