US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Dynamically controllable and adaptable vehicle paging response" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,104, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Dynamically controllable and adaptable vehicle paging response" was invented by Jeffrey William Wirtanen (Kanata, Canada), Muhammad Khaledul Islam (Ottawa) and Yihai Zhang (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle determines the value of at least one predefined variable related to predefined contexts for discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle control during an engine-off state of the vehicle. The vehicle determines how a current DRX cycle should be changed responsive to the value of the at least one predefined variable in accordance w...