US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Dec. 23 for "System and method of providing marshaling status via vehicle exterior lights" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,044, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method of providing marshaling status via vehicle exterior lights" was invented by Krishna Bandi (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Meghna Menon (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Somak Datta Gupta (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 wirelessly communicating status information of one or more vehicles with one or more infrastructures including the receipt of an onboarding process trigger based on a current status associated with a pre-onboarding process of t...