US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 8 for "RF and optical message association" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,596, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"RF and optical message association" was invented by Jayanthi Rao (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Arpita Chand (Corvallis, Ore.), Niraj Altekar (Mumbai, India) and Mike Ryan (New Hudson, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data fusion of radio frequency (RF) and visual data is provided. Via a transceiver of a vehicle, a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) message is received from a remote road entity, the V2X message including one or more V2X data elements descriptive of the remote road entity. Using a camera of the vehicle, modulated light data is captured wi...