US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 12 for "ECU replacement with odometer" (Michigan, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,539, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"ECU replacement with odometer" was invented by George Abraham (Macomb, Mich.), Shayne Baugher (Livonia, Mich.), Mandar Sadashiv Dalvi (Canton, Mich.), Michael Raymond Westra (Plymouth, Mich.), Robert Dekelbaum (Hanover, Pa.) and Satya Meenakshi Raparthi (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive a first data block from a server remote from the computer and remote from a vehicle; while the computer is installed on bo...