US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 8 for "System, method, and computer program product for data-driven optimization of onboard data collection" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,197, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System, method, and computer program product for data-driven optimization of onboard data collection" was invented by Jelena Frtunikj (Munich), Jan Martin (Munich) and Thomas Muhlenstadt (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems, methods, and computer program products for data-driven optimization of onboard data collection, comprising identifying a condition in a roadway associated with an operation of autonomous vehicles (AVs) that may be further optimized to improve performance of one or more AVs; and generating condition captur...