ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,801, issued on July 15, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Application control in a vehicle" was invented by Abdullah Ali Husain (Dearborn, Mich.), Anushree Nagvekar (Novi, Mich.), Srujan Reddy Maram (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Nasser Shuaibi (Dearborn, Mich.), Vyacheslav Zavadsky (Ottawa), Satish Rayarapu (Canton, Mich.) and Mirela Ioana Fonoage (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to execute an application in an isolated software environment on a controller of a vehicle; upon receivin...