US Patent Issued to Ford Motor on Feb. 17 for "Method and system of automated vehicle body routing system employing predicted vehicle body imperfections and vision detection system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,478, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Ford Motor Co. (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Method and system of automated vehicle body routing system employing predicted vehicle body imperfections and vision detection system" was invented by Gary David Farquhar (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Marc Tornero Soria (Troy, Mich.), Brian Lucatch (Saint Clair Shores, Mich.) and Mitchell Goepel (Lake Orion, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of directing a vehicle body through a paint process includes obtaining, by a vehicle manufacturing system, process operation data from a vehicle body process. The process operation data is indicative of an operati...