US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 22 for "Methods and systems to control driver assist systems" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,774, issued on April 22, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and systems to control driver assist systems" was invented by Nicholas James Brown (Hornchurch, Great Britain) and Ryan Wells (Cold Norton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein to improve control of automatic driver assist systems in a vehicle and a vehicle comprising said systems, for example, by enabling the automatic driver assist systems to be selectively deactivated or activated under certain conditions."

The patent was filed on Oct. 27, 2021, under Application No. 17/512,269.

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