ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,168, issued on July 29, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Test rover apparatus" was invented by Thomas Daniel McMenamin Jr. (Oakmont, Pa.), Raymond Leonard (Brentwood, Pa.), Michael Brandl (Steingaden, Germany), Timothy Riggs (Latrobe, Pa.), Sean William Shawgo (Pittsburgh) and Dustin Ryan Yautz (Wexford, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a test rover apparatus, a test system and a test method using the test rover apparatus. For example, the test rover apparatus is provided with a chassis that is configured to support an object representing a mobile actor, and a motor that is couple...