US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 20 for "Navigational attribute driven system and method for adjusting an adjustable component of a vehicle" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,407, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Navigational attribute driven system and method for adjusting an adjustable component of a vehicle" was invented by David Alfred Ostrowski (Northville, Mich.), Leopoldo Urbina (Alvaro Obregon, Mexico), Akshay Dirisala (Olmsted Township, Ohio), Elizabeth Anne Manwell (Canton, Mich.) and Austin Kirchner (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for supporting and executing automated control of adjustable components of a vehicle based on occupant classification in a group identity database. Methods and systems for gener...