US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 29 for "Vehicle-centric road usage application using vehicle sensors" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,865, issued on July 29, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle-centric road usage application using vehicle sensors" was invented by Krishna Bandi (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Sathyanarayana Chary Palakonda (Northville, Mich.), Brennan Hamilton (Birmingham, Mich.), Ivan Vukovic (Birmingham, Mich.) and Swetha Shailendra (Royal Oak, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computing vehicle-centric road usage without high definition (HD) road maps is performed. Road usage charging (RUC) charge geometry rules defining a zone in which RUC are charged are received via a V2X transceiver of a vehicle. The vehicle...