ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,975, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for onboarding an automated vehicle" was invented by Krishna Bandi (Novi, Mich.), Sathyanarayana Chary Palakonda (Northville, Mich.), Mario Anthony Santillo (Canton, Mich.), Meghna Menon (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and Karthikeya Singirikonda (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes the receipt of one or more vehicle marshaling messages, the transmission of an infrastructure-initiated certification key associated with the vehicle, the receipt of a vehicle-initiated certification key based on one or more...