US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Methods and apparatus to detect loads lost from vehicles during transit" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,589, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and apparatus to detect loads lost from vehicles during transit" was invented by Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.), Eliza Rose Bifano (Garden City, Mich.) and David Michael Russell (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to identify loads lost from vehicles are disclosed. An example apparatus to identify a load lost from a vehicle includes at least one memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to determine a first loa...