US Patent Issued to Ford Motor on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for surveying a manufacturing environment" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,072, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ford Motor Co. (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for surveying a manufacturing environment" was invented by Sarah Garrow (Detroit) and Shankar Narayan Mohan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for surveying an environment includes segmenting a plurality of nodes into a plurality of communities. The method includes identifying a plurality of community centroids based on the plurality of communities, where each community centroid from among the plurality of community centroids is associated with one community from among the plurality of communities. The method includes d...