US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 29 for "Systems and methods for permitting access to a human machine interface in a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,860, issued on April 29, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for permitting access to a human machine interface in a vehicle" was invented by Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.), Brendan Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.) and Michael Alan Mcnees (Flat Rock, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for a vehicle configured to be driven by a driver is provided. The vehicle has a human-machine interface (HMI). The system includes an interior sensor suite, a processor electrically connected to the interior sensor suite and the HMI, and a memory. The memory has instructions that, when executed by ...