ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,870, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vulnerable road user identification system" was invented by Niraj Altekar (Mumbai, India), Michael Ryan (Bradford, Pa.) and Jayanthi Rao (West Bloomfield, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including a human machine interface (HMI); a light sensor configured to receive a light pulse emitted from an illumination device, wherein the light pulse includes an original message in a modulated format; and one or more controllers programmed to demodulate the light pulse to obtain the original message, wherein the original message identifies ...