US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on March 17 for "Dynamic sensor model to adapt vehicle modifications and transformation" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,430, issued on March 17, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Dynamic sensor model to adapt vehicle modifications and transformation" was invented by Mahmoud Y. Ghannam (Canton, Mich.) and Jonathan Engels (Tecumseh, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic sensor model is implemented by a vehicle to adapt sensor behavior to vehicle modifications and transformations. Responsive to impairment of a feature of the vehicle due to initial conditions for a target sensor being outside a range of current readings and further to receiving signals indicative of a upfit to the vehicle, an upfit zone of the vehi...