US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for inspecting a vehicle" (Michigan, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,513, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for inspecting a vehicle" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Krishna Bandi (Novi, Mich.), Mario Anthony Santillo (Canton, Mich.), Brendan Diamond (Naples, Fla.), Vyas Darshan Shenoy (Canton, Mich.) and Ryan O'Gorman (Beverly Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes the generation of an inspection-related checklist based on one or more functions of a vehicle, the receipt of one or more commands to perform a vehicle function of the one or more vehicle functions, the performance of the vehicl...