ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,658, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle fault prediction" was invented by Chris Wolf (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Nicholas B. Chase (Royal Oak, Mich.) and Michael W. Degner (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive time-series data from sensors of a vehicle, determine an efficiency of the vehicle, and determine a probability of a fault occurring in the vehicle based on the time-series data and on the efficiency. The efficiency is energy consumption by the vehicle p...