US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Nov. 3 for "Vehicle operation around other vehicles" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,196, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle operation around other vehicles" was invented by Brandon M. Dawson (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Ozgenur Kavas Torris (Dearborn, Mich.), Imad Makki (Dearborn Heights, Mich.), Michael Hafner (San Carlos, Calif.), Abhishek Sharma (Lasalle/Ontario, Canada), Yousaf Rahman (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Erol Dogan Sumer (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Yan Wang (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to formulate a plurality of control barrier functions...