ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,416, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods of remote wake-up of a vehicle" was invented by Krishna Bandi (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Meghna Menon (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Mario Anthony Santillo (Canton, Mich.) and Gregory P. Linkowski (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for remotely waking-up a vehicle includes the request of a vehicle power state of at least one non-responsive vehicle of a plurality of autonomously operated vehicles, the verification-via a remote-start-wakeup automated vehicle marshaling algorithm installed within an infrastructure-of a...