US Patent Issued to FCA US on Aug. 25 for "Detection of a vehicle by one or more other vehicles" (Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,681, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Detection of a vehicle by one or more other vehicles" was invented by Thomas E Apczynski (Livonia, Mich.) and Alan R Cea (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for identifying a vehicle includes receiving in a network vehicle a search notification relating to a subject vehicle to be located including subject vehicle identification information. Thereafter, a camera in the network vehicle is activated to obtain an image that includes at least one vehicle that is not the network vehicle. Image vehicle identification information of the at least one...