ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,947, issued on July 29, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Modular systems for industrial machinery" was invented by Paul Michael Kane (Rayleigh, Great Britain), Leigh Canham (Southend-On-Sea, Great Britain) and Leslie Lee (Horndon on the Hill, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for autonomously recovering a machine comprising one or more modules. An error message from the machine is received and, based on the error message, a first module of the one or more modules to replace is determined, wherein the first module has a first type. An autonomous vehicle is in...