US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Dec. 30 for "System for monitoring vehicle manufacturing process employing portable vision system and quality monitoring system" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,492, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System for monitoring vehicle manufacturing process employing portable vision system and quality monitoring system" was invented by Walter LaPlante (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Harry Kekedjian (Tecumseh, Canada), Chetan Patel (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Jyothi Gainadi (Northville, Mich.), Kevin Bartholomew (Belleville, Mich.), Jim Birley (Bingham Farms, Mich.) and Scott Matthew King (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a station information system, a portable vision system, and a quality monitoring system. The station ...