US 12,434,661 B2
TCU replacement snitch mode
Elena Ilieva, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US); Simon John William Hurr, Grays (GB); John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Novi, MI (US); and Yamen Taleb, Dearborn Heights, MI (US)
Assigned to Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed by Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed on Jan. 10, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/409,242.
Prior Publication US 2025/0222897 A1, Jul. 10, 2025
Int. Cl. B60R 25/10 (2013.01); B60R 25/04 (2013.01); B60R 25/102 (2013.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 25/102 (2013.01) [B60R 25/04 (2013.01); G07C 5/008 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cloud system for managing mismatched controller alerts, comprising:
a component database configured to store mismatched controller alerts received from a plurality of vehicles, each of the mismatched controller alerts indicating an identifier of a current vehicle that a mismatched controller is installed into and a location of the current vehicle responsive to the current vehicle identifying a mismatch of an identifier of the mismatched controller with an expected configuration of the current vehicle; and
one or more hardware computing devices, configured to:
perform clustering of the mismatched controller alerts to correlate the mismatched controller alerts by location, and
indicate clustered locations of the mismatched controller alerts.