Ford Global Technologies Assigned Patent

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI, has been assigned a patent (12026996) developed by Herman; David Michael, West Bloomfield, MI, for a “vehicle data storage activation.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive data recorded in a plurality of vehicles, the data including a plurality of decisions about activating a feature of the vehicles and values of a plurality of variables; receive a plurality of decision scores indicating whether the respective decision was optimal according to the data recorded in the respective vehicle; determine an uncertainty function indicating an uncertainty of a likely value of the decision score based on the values of the variables; determine a set of conditions for the variables based on the uncertainty function; and transmit an instruction to the vehicles to record and upload data when the values of the variables satisfy the set of the conditions.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-04-04 (17/712387).