US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 8 for "Graph based optimal matching for peer-to-peer vehicle sharing" (Michigan, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,035, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Graph based optimal matching for peer-to-peer vehicle sharing" was invented by Sarah Garrow (Coral Gables, Fla.) and Yifan Chen (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peer-to-peer (P2P) vehicle sharing method is disclosed. The method may include obtaining a list of rent requests and associated requested rental durations, and a list of available vehicles and associated vehicle availability time periods. The list of rent requests may represent first nodes and the list of available vehicles may represent second nodes of a vehicle-renter gr...