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

Claim 17:
18. A system for controlling at least one adjustable component of a vehicle, the system comprising:
an adjustment control system that controls at least one positioning actuator in response to an instruction to adjust the at least one adjustable component;
an occupancy detection system that detects one or more personal mobile devices in the vehicle to determine a current occupancy configuration; and
a group identity database that applies a machine learning model trained to:
predict a current group identity profile corresponding to the current occupancy configuration, wherein the current group identity profile includes occupancy information corresponding to a number of occupants in the vehicle and an identity of at least one occupant of the vehicle, wherein the current group identity profile is predicted based on another group identity profile having at least one characteristic similar to the occupancy data; and
determine, based on the current group identity profile, target position data corresponding to a target position for the at least one adjustable component; and

at least one controller:
that receives, from the group identity database, the target position data for the at least one adjustable component; and
that communicates, via the adjustment control system, the instruction to position the at least one adjustable component toward the target position based on the target position data.