US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Automated execution of vehicle functions" (German, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,234, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Automated execution of vehicle functions" was invented by Yuliya Aksyutina (Julich, Germany), Stephen John Cook (Hockley, Great Britain), Roman Atilla Koch (Aachen/Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany) and Cem Mengi (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for the automated execution of vehicle functions of a vehicle includes: providing a vehicle function processing sequence which specifies a processing sequence of vehicle functions on the occurrence of a first triggering event, wherein the first triggering event is b...