ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,075, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle filtering hub" was invented by Russell Andres (Riverview, Mich.), Yeo-Wang John Lee (Plymouth, Mich.), David Kaiser (Allen Park, Mich.), Marshall Earnest (Seattle), Bradley G. Hochrein (Dexter, Mich.), Chitra Varanasi (Canton, Mich.), David Pericak (Clinton Township, Mich.) and Robert Ralph Iorio (Beverly Hills, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle operates as a hub for locating and filtering water. The vehicle receives filter information over a local network connection between the vehicle and a water filter. The vehicle sends...