US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 12 for "Location-synchronous averaging of connected vehicle data" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,758, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Location-synchronous averaging of connected vehicle data" was invented by Christopher Wolf (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Michael W. Degner (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Location-synchronous averaging of connected vehicle data is provided. Connected vehicle data, including events occurring to a plurality of vehicles driving along roadways and location coordinates at which the respective events occurred, is aggregated. A kernel density estimation is performed to smoothly aggregate neighboring event counts. The locations of conditions along t...