Ford Motor had 27 patents in digitalization during Q1 2024. Ford Motor Co filed patents in Q1 2024 for systems related to vehicle charging, road salt distribution, energy consumption prediction, local electrical energy management, and vehicle resale price calculation. These patents involve technologies such as generating reports for vehicle charging, using blockchain for road salt distribution, predicting energy consumption in vehicles, utilizing electrified vehicles for powering electrical loads, and calculating resale prices based on diagnostic trouble codes. GlobalData’s report on Ford Motor gives a 360-degree view of the company including its patenting strategy. Buy the report here.
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Ford Motor grant share with digitalization as a theme is 74% in Q1 2024. Grant share is based on the ratio of number of grants to total number of patents.
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Application: Privacy-preserving road usage charging reports (Patent ID: US20240095790A1)
The patent filed by Ford Motor Co. describes a system for privacy-preserving road usage charging (RUC) that generates individual sum reports for vehicles indicating the account to be charged and the total amount owed, as well as an aggregate report showing total amounts owed to charger domains without revealing vehicle accounts. These reports are sent to a RUC service provider for charging vehicles and crediting charger domains without disclosing specific route information. The system ensures privacy by separating individual vehicle data from aggregate charging information.
The system involves a secure application cloud that generates sum and aggregate reports for vehicles, sends them to the RUC service provider, and receives map and fee information for distribution to vehicles. Vehicles periodically generate these reports and send them to the service provider, which then reconciles the data to charge vehicles and credit charger domains accordingly. The method ensures that individual vehicle accounts and route information are kept confidential while allowing for accurate road usage charging and domain crediting based on aggregate data. The system also allows for temporal misalignment between sum and aggregate reports to further protect privacy.
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