Patent ID: 11897403
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A method for controlling at least one adjustable component of a vehicle, the method comprising:
detecting one or more personal mobile devices in the vehicle to determine a current occupancy configuration;
receiving occupant data via at least one controller, the occupant data including identification information corresponding to at least one occupant of the vehicle;
identifying, based on the identification information, a plurality of group identity profiles associated with the identification information via the at least one controller, each of the plurality of group identity profiles corresponding to one of a plurality of occupancy configurations;
determining a current group identity profile of the plurality of group identity profiles based on the current occupancy configuration of the plurality of occupancy configurations via the at least one controller, each of the plurality of group identity profiles including occupancy information corresponding to a number of occupants in the vehicle and an identity of the at least one occupant of the vehicle;
determining a target position for the at least one adjustable component based on the current group identity profile via the at least one controller;
communicating, via an adjustment control system, an instruction to position the at least one adjustable component toward the target position; and
adjusting, via the adjustment control system, the at least one adjustable component toward the target position.