US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 20 for "Methods and systems for operating a peripheral device of a vehicle" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,308, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and systems for operating a peripheral device of a vehicle" was invented by Benjamin Moffatt (Iver, Great Britain), Ian Salsbury (Wickford, Great Britain), Yasmin Jawad (Dearborn, Mich.), Sheraz Atiq (Wickford, Great Britain), Tithal Bhandari (Westland, Mich.), Joseph Hornby (London) and Sanketh S. Venkatesh Prasad (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for operating a peripheral device of a vehicle. Control circuitry determines whether the peripheral device is connected to a vehicle controller....