US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Vehicle end-of-line testing with an autonomous conveyor transport system" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,694, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle end-of-line testing with an autonomous conveyor transport system" was invented by Beni Tang (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end-of-line task system includes a plurality of bays each including a plurality of task stations and a task execution system for executing software-based tasks, a conveyor system for transporting the vehicle to and from the plurality of bays, and a task and vehicle management system. The task and vehicle management system includes a station module for collecting data from the task stations and for...