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Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2024

Filed:

Jun. 25, 2021
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Andrew Niedert, Farmington Hills, MI (US);

Peter Simeon Lazarevski, Dearborn, MI (US);

Anton Rogness, Dearborn, MI (US);

Elliott Pearson, Shelby Township, MI (US);

Joshua Rajasingh, Ypsilanti, MI (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/12 (2012.01); B60R 25/10 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/12 (2013.01); B60R 25/10 (2013.01); B60R 2025/1016 (2013.01); B60W 2530/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example apparatus includes a profile manager to determine whether a user of a vehicle has a corresponding profile stored in memory based on a personalized vehicle key associated with the user, in response to determining that the profile for the user is not available, receive one or more inputs from the user via a display, the one or more inputs including a loading condition threshold and a corresponding response to exceeding the loading condition threshold, and generate the profile for the user based on the one more inputs from the user; and a vehicle feature modifier to modify a feature of the vehicle when a load condition of the vehicle satisfies the loading condition threshold to limit or disable operation of the vehicle based on the corresponding response to exceeding the loading condition threshold, the feature modified based upon the profile.


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