US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 20 for "Vehicle display control" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,958, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle display control" was invented by Brian Nash (Plymouth, Mich.), Kevin Lee Helpingstine (Ferndale, Mich.) and Brendan Francis Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and memory, the memory can store instructions executable by the processor to transition a vehicle display from a vehicle monitored state to a content delivery state based on a placement of the vehicle in a non-monitored state, and to transition a control from a vehicle control state to a content delivery control state based o...