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Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2023

Filed:

Jun. 11, 2019
Applicant:

Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);

Inventors:

Thomas G. Leone, Ypsilanti, MI (US);

James Eric Anderson, Dearborn, MI (US);

Michael Kruntovski, Beverly Hills, MI (US);

Chad Boarman, Franklin, MI (US);

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G06Q 50/30 (2012.01); G07C 5/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3469 (2013.01); G01C 21/3438 (2013.01); G01C 21/3492 (2013.01); G01C 21/3697 (2013.01); G06Q 50/30 (2013.01); G07C 5/0816 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems are provided for improving the manner in which different fuel types are used under different driving scenarios. In one example, a method may include determining a travel route based on a particular transportation request input by a customer into a software application, where the software application selects a vehicle from a plurality of available vehicles to fulfill the transportation request based on a relative fuel octane content of fuel stored by the available vehicles. In this way, appropriate fuel type usage for different driving scenarios may be improved, and non-appropriate fuel type usage may be avoided.


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