IP Library Granted Patent US 12673551
Granted Patent B2
US 12673551 · App. 18/078,766 · Granted Jul 7, 2026

Adaptive vehicle control responsive to changing driving behaviors

Inventors: Brian Wallace Stop (Canton, MI); Adil Nizam Siddiqui (Farmington Hills, MI); Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, MI)
Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
B60K35/10B60W40/09B60K2360/11B60K2360/122B60W2556/10
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12673551
App. No.
18/078,766
Granted
Jul 7, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system detects the occurrence of a vehicle event designated as a trigger. The system obtains interaction data, representing user interface interactions with a user interface of a vehicle, recorded by the vehicle for a predefined time period leading to the event. Further, the system, for any obtained interaction data, compares the data to historical data indicating interactions with a user interface prior to previous events comparable to the detected event to determine whether there is at least one correlation between user interface interaction and the occurrence of events comparable to the detected event and, responsive to a determined correlation, instructs modification of an aspect of the user interface of the vehicle, the aspect associated with interactions represented by the interaction data.

Claims (13)

1 . A system comprising:

one or more processors configured to:

deploy a user interface change to a plurality of vehicles, responsive to each vehicle being identified as having experienced a threshold number of detected events having a defined linkage to user interface interaction based on respective user interface usage data from a respective vehicle preceding a respective detected event;

track interactions with a user interface modified by the change to determine whether the change produces positive outcomes with respect to new events comparable to the detected events;

responsive to the tracked interactions producing positive outcomes, identify a second group of candidate vehicles, experiencing events comparable to the detected events; and

deploy the user interface change to the second group of vehicles.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the detected events include one or more driving behaviors identifiable as anomalous based on comparison to historically observed driving behaviors for a given driver of a vehicle within the plurality.

3 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the events include one or more driving behaviors predefined as anomalous.

4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the tracking includes determination as to whether interactions with the user interface modified by the change occurred in the absence of any event, correlated to a positive outcome.

5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the tracking includes a determination as to whether interactions with the user interface modified by the change occurred prior to at least one of the new events, wherein the at least one of the new events was diminished in at least one of duration or aggressiveness, correlated to a positive outcome.

6 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the tracking includes a determination that average durations of user interactions with the user interface modified by the change have diminished, correlated to a positive outcome.

7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the tracking further results in a determination as to whether the change produces a negative outcome, and wherein the one or more processors are configured to offer reversion to a prior user interface responsive to the negative outcome.

8 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the change is further accommodative of at least one predefined specific user visual preference, so that the change accommodates the at least one specific user visual preferences by reflecting the user preference in a visual adaptation resulting from the change.