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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2025
Filed:
May. 23, 2023
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Thomas Edward Debruyn, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Taylor Hawley, Oak Park, MI (US);
Assignee:
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, DEARBORN, US;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/0112 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods described herein allow vehicles in specific areas to create secure and encrypted breadcrumbs indicating paths along which they have traveled. The breadcrumbs may be created using sensor data from connected vehicle platforms. These breadcrumbs include information about the road surface, wheel traction, vehicle velocity, and observed event data using the platform's camera lenses and computer vision. Vehicles can record these breadcrumbs and assign a location to which the breadcrumbs should be mapped in the system.