US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 21 for "Vehicle distribution of low-speed autonomous vehicles" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,846, issued on July 21, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle distribution of low-speed autonomous vehicles" was invented by Mario Anthony Santillo (Canton, Mich.), Meghna Menon (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Gregory P. Linkowski (Dearborn, Mich.) and Smruti Panigrahi (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for vehicle distribution of a fleet of vehicles includes: receiving signals from a set of infrastructure sensors; receiving signals from one or more sensors on-board the vehicles; processing the signals from the set of infrastructure sensors and the signals from the one or more sensors on-board...