US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 1 for "Adaptive fleet vehicle dispatch with edge sensing" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,526, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Adaptive fleet vehicle dispatch with edge sensing" was invented by Arpita Chand (Dearborn, Mich.), Oliver Lei (Windsor, Canada), Somak Datta Gupta (Novi, Mich.) and Jayanthi Rao (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a multi-access edge computing camera that can determine characteristics of a group of waiting vehicle passengers based on machine-classification and count of individual elements of the group derived from imaging the group with the camera and supplement at least the count based on short-range wireless...