US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 5 for "Vehicle operation with operator monitoring" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,379, issued on May 5, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle operation with operator monitoring" was invented by Alexandra Taylor (Harbor Springs, Mich.), Kevin Wegienka (Novi, Mich.), Ali Hassani (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Justin Miller (Berkley, Mich.) and Gerald H. Engelman (Plymouth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a computer having a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions executable by the processor to determine an operator reengagement score based on sensor data including multiple perception factors and multiple controllability factors. An operator reengagement ...