ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,426, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle variant-aware services" was invented by Aishwarya Vasu (Canton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processor to execute instructions to, upon instantiation of a control application in a vehicle, retrieve (a) configuration data specifying one or more features available to the control application in the vehicle, and (b) settings data specifying one or more current settings for the control application; monitor a vehicle network for request from a remote device for a selected feature of the control application in the veh...