US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 14 for "Systems and methods for the localization and navigation of a vehicle to a charge station" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,253, issued on April 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for the localization and navigation of a vehicle to a charge station" was invented by Meghna Menon (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Smruti Panigrahi (Novi, Mich.), Gregory P. Linkowski (Dearborn, Mich.) and Mario Anthony Santillo (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of marshaling an autonomously operated vehicle including the maneuvering of a vehicle toward a position and orientation associated with a charging station, the receipt of location data associated with a first position of the vehicle, and the initiation of an...