US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for securing private user data based on GPS" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,342, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for securing private user data based on GPS" was invented by Jason Carlton (Waterford, Mich.), Priyank Shah (West Bloomfield, Mich.) and Hafiz Malik (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for deleting a user profile and pairing data stored in memory of an in-vehicle computing system to maintain user privacy and data security. In one method, the method includes deleting at least one user profile and corresponding pairing data upon receiving a deletion request, wherein the in-vehi...