US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 23 for "System and method for wirelessly performing software-based tasks on vehicles" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,136, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method for wirelessly performing software-based tasks on vehicles" was invented by Jamal Alezzani (Belleville, Mich.), Jason Michael Miller (Woodhaven, Mich.), Priyank Shah (West Bloomfield, Mich.) and Basavaraj Tonshal (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for testing-configuring one or more vehicles includes a task communication module obtaining a task data packet having a selected software-based task to be performed on a selected vehicle, where a task command identifier identifying the task, a command matching...