US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 31 for "Systems and methods of adjustable component management for a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,709, issued on March 31, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods of adjustable component management for a vehicle" was invented by Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.) and Heba Abdallah (Dearborn Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for managing adjustments for a component of a vehicle includes a time-of-flight sensor configured to generate a point cloud representing a compartment of the vehicle. The system further includes an actuator configured to adjust the component of the vehicle. The system further includes processing circuitry in communication with the time-of-f...