ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,404, issued on March 24, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Operator-customized vehicle control" was invented by Karthik Krishnamurthy (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Bhagyashri Satyabodha Katti (Novi, Mich.), Walter Joseph Talamonti (Canton, Mich.), Johannes Geir Kristinsson (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante (Commerce Township, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive operator input from an operator in response to an operator assessment questionnaire, identify a preference grouping...