US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 17 for "Method and apparatus for one to many vehicle broadcast handling" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,847, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Method and apparatus for one to many vehicle broadcast handling" was invented by Oliver Lei (Windsor, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system wirelessly receives identification of a reportable navigation event from one or more vehicles, the identification including vehicle location information. The system determines a locality to which the reportable event applies. The system determines one or more television broadcast stations predefined as having a broadcast area that covers the locality. Additionally, the system defines navigation dat...