ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,661, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"TCU replacement snitch mode" was invented by Elena Ilieva (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Simon John William Hurr (Grays, Great Britain), John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.) and Yamen Taleb (Dearborn Heights, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach to managing mismatched controller alerts is disclosed. The approach includes storing, to a component database of a cloud system having one or more hardware computing devices, mismatched controller alerts received from a plurality of vehicles, each of the mismatched controller alerts indicating a...