US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 8 for "System and method for selective vehicle driving assistance relative to ruts in an off-road environment" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,868, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method for selective vehicle driving assistance relative to ruts in an off-road environment" was invented by Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.), Anna Frances Hardig Hendrickson (Southfield, Mich.), Brendan Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.) and Kenneth Patrick Mchugh (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing vehicle guidance for traversal of rutted terrain may include employing a sensor network to determine characteristics of ruts in the rutted terrain, and determining a proximity v...