ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,293, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Self-optimizing on-vehicle network" was invented by Jean de Dieu Mutangana (Detroit), Ivan Vukovic (Birmingham, Mich.), Nicholas Alexander Scheufler (Flat Rock, Mich.), Sathyanarayana Chary Palakonda (Northville, Mich.) and John Eric Rollinger (Troy, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Self-optimization of an ultra-wideband (UWB) network is performed. A configuration of UWB anchors of a vehicle is identified. A state vector is constructed based on the identified configuration, the state vector including values for status and ranging quality indi...