US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on March 24 for "Privacy-preserving road usage charging reports" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,105, issued on March 24, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Privacy-preserving road usage charging reports" was invented by Ivan Vukovic (Birmingham, Mich.), Krishna Bandi (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Sathyanarayana Chary Palakonda (Northville, Mich.), Syed Amaar Ahmad (Canton, Mich.) and Joseph Zane (Birmingham, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sum report is generated for each vehicle of a plurality of vehicles, the respective sum report indicating an account of the vehicle to be charged and a total sum owed by the vehicle. An aggregate report is generated indicating total amounts owed to each of a...