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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2018
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Donald Christopher Conroy, Novi, MI (US);
Fiona Jane Gronowicz, Plymouth, MI (US);
Jay Davis, Bloomfield, MI (US);
John David Jorgensen, Carleton, MI (US);
Satyavardhan Naga Injeti, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Peter J. Nikolajevs, Dearborn, MI (US);
Ronald T. Oppat, Jr., Northville, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A scheduling server is programmed to register terminals for autonomous vehicle use by allocating both capabilities and available times of the terminals to the server; identify a service to perform to an autonomous vehicle using data received from the vehicle; and send a waypoint to the vehicle directing the vehicle to arrive at an identified one of the terminals having capability to perform the service during the available times of the identified terminal.