ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,975, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Adaptive response for marshaling failure modes" was invented by Syed Amaar Ahmad (Canton, Mich.), Krishna Bandi (Novi, Mich.) and Eduardo Perez Guzman (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of broadcasting a signal to marshal a plurality of autonomously operated vehicles including the signal broadcasted to the plurality of autonomously operated vehicles, the establishment of a secure data connection with each of the plurality of autonomously operated vehicles based on the signal, the determination of a disruption in the secure dat...