ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,779, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Detection of vehicle operating conditions" was invented by David Michael Herman (Oak Park, Mich.), Aaron Lesky (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Ronald Beras (Warren, Mich.) and Ashwin Arunmozhi (Canton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processor programmed to: identify, based on data from first sensors included in a first vehicle, a second vehicle moving within a first threshold distance of a travel path of the first vehicle and within a second threshold distance of the first vehicle. The processor is further programmed to receive, fro...