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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2024
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Gary David Farquhar, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Mitchell Goepel, Lake Orion, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A method including the receipt of a set of data associated with a surface condition of a vehicle, a determination of an extent of an instance of one or more imperfections upon a surface of the vehicle made by an artificial intelligence system, and an update to a pathway followed by one or more robots based on the determination of the extent of the instance of the one or more imperfections. The determination of the extent of the instance of the one or more imperfections causes the one or more robots to initiate a remediation action to a targeted portion of the surface of the vehicle to resolve the instance of the one or more imperfections.