ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,071, issued on May 26, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Infrastructure-based vehicle management" was invented by Gregory P. Linkowski (Dearborn, Mich.) and Mario A. Santillo (Canton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle can be detected approaching a limited operation zone of a travel area. It can be determined that the vehicle is able to execute wireless commands from a computer. The object can be identified within the limited operation zone. Based on identifying the object within the limited operation zone, the vehicle can be controlled by providing a control command via wireless communicatio...