US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 27 for "Tracking system and method employing an artificial neural network for tracking tools in and nearby a transportation vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,235, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Tracking system and method employing an artificial neural network for tracking tools in and nearby a transportation vehicle" was invented by Turgay Isik Aslandere (Nordrhein-westfalen, Germany) and Marcel Grein (Geilenkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tracking system and method for tracking tools in and nearby a transportation vehicle is provided. The tracking system comprises a vehicle-based detection unit for optically acquiring tool sets in the vehicle loading space from different angles and providing digital image data as well ...