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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2019
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Amanuel Zeryihun, Pinole, CA (US);
Pramita Mitra, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Prashant Rao, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Abhishek Sharma, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
David Melcher, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle includes a controller, programmed to responsive to detecting a parking space via a camera, generate a parking message including location information about the parking space; broadcast the parking message to fleet vehicles within a predefined geo-fence, each of the fleet vehicles serving as a node of a blockchain network; and receive a predefined reward, via the blockchain network, from one of the fleet vehicles having successfully occupied the parking space.