US Patent Issued to Ford Motor on Oct. 20 for "System and method of joining an existing automated vehicle marshaling convoy using wireless communication" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,518, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Ford Motor Co. (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method of joining an existing automated vehicle marshaling convoy using wireless communication" was invented by Krishna Bandi (Novi, Mich.), Meghna Menon (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Mario Anthony Santillo (Canton, Mich.) and Gregory P. Linkowski (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transmitting a request to join a marshaling convoy, receiving routing-localization information in response to the request, and controlling one or more sub-systems within a vehicle to enter a marshaling convoy based on the routing-localization information a...