US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 8 for "Vehicle having imaging device for pet detection and control" (Maryland, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,423, issued on April 8, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle having imaging device for pet detection and control" was invented by Lawrence Amadi (Nottingham, Md.), Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.), Hussein H. Berry (Dearborn, Mich.), Annette Lynn Huebner (Highland, Mich.) and Marguerite Lynn Kimball (Brighton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle is provided that includes an imaging device located on the vehicle and oriented to capture images, memory storing one or more pet profiles, and a controller processing the captured images to detect a ...