US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Dec. 23 for "Interaction between host vehicle and target vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,107, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Interaction between host vehicle and target vehicle" was invented by Yuhao Liu (Canton, Mich.), Christopher Pontisakos (Allen Park, Mich.) and Alex Maurice Miller (Canton, 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 determine a host kinematic state of a host vehicle, determine a target kinematic state of a target vehicle, determine a quantity characterizing an intersection of a host path of the host vehicle and a target path of the target vehi...