US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Multiple source MEC assistance strategy for autonomous vehicles" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,381, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Multiple source MEC assistance strategy for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Oliver Lei (Windsor, Canada) and Somak Datta Gupta (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system receives scene data from a plurality of multi-access edge computing (MEC) nodes, the scene data for each MEC node indicating data about a scene covered by sensors of a given one of the MEC nodes. The system determines one or more areas of interest included in at least one of the scenes and, for at least one of the one or more areas of interest that includes indicat...