… a Ford patent application titled “Systems and Methods to Repossess a Vehicle” was published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Feb. 23, although it was submitted to the agency Aug. 20, 2021.
The document describes using vehicles’ built-in data connections to remotely disable “a functionality of one or more components of the vehicle,” which would serve as warnings if the owner has missed car payments.
Damn, that’s a patent?
It shouldn’t be but if this makes it harder for other companies to do this, it would be kinda funny lol
That would be funny, but realistically this just determines who makes money from licensing the design to everyone else. Assuming the patent isn’t successfully challenged.
even less reason to buy American
Exactly what I was thinking.