ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- United States Patent no. 11,973,847, issued on April 30, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Intelligent ticketing and data offload planning for connected vehicles" was invented by Omar Makke (Lyon Township, Mich.), Jeremy Lerner (Southfield, Mich.) and Oleg Yurievitch Gusikhin (Commerce Township, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Intelligent ticketing and data offload planning is provided. A data center receives a ticket request from a vehicle requesting to perform a data upload of vehicle data over a communications network. An optimizer is utilized to generate a ticket, the ticket specifying a time and a location for the vehicle to p...