US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 18 for "System and method for tool allocation for service vehicles" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,445, issued on March 18, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method for tool allocation for service vehicles" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Brendan F. Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), Meghan Preiss (Detroit), Annette Lynn Huebner (Highland, Mich.) and Lia Pillen (Woodhaven, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool application system for a vehicle may include a database configured to maintain an inventory of items on a vehicle, and a server configured to receive a request for at least one item relating to a worksite from a technician, compare the request for the at lea...