US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 29 for "System for a vehicle operable to enter a reverse mode" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,872, issued on July 29, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System for a vehicle operable to enter a reverse mode" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Annette Lynn Huebner (Highland, Mich.), Kristopher Karl Brown (Dearborn, Mich.), David Michael Diamond (Canton, Mich.) and Clayton Benjamin Ford (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for a vehicle includes a human-machine interface, a microphone that detects sound, a sound source device that emits sound, and a controller that prompts pairing of the sound source device and the microphone, such that the sound source device...