ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,469, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle control module allocation" was invented by Kexun Chen (Canton, Mich.) and Abdullah Ali Husain (Dearborn, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system includes a master controller, a plurality of control modules, and a vehicle network communicatively coupling the master controller and the control modules. The master controller is programmed to receive a set of dependencies between a plurality of applications, receive resource limitations for the control modules, and allocate the applications to the control modules based on the dep...