ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,963, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.) and The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Machine learning and data classification for operating a device such as a vehicle" was invented by John Moore (Canton, Mich.), Subhadip Ghosh (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Ziwei Zeng (Canton, Mich.), Junho Hong (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jaerock Kwon (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Aydin Zaboli (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Kuchan Park (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer that includes a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions executable by the processor to input an ima...