ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,599, issued on July 8, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"V2X message-based tracker application" was invented by Azin Neishaboori (Plymouth, Mich.), Syed Amaar Ahmad (Canton, Mich.) and Esrafil Jedari (Windsor, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) message-based vehicle tracking is provided. Connected messages including position, dimension, and heading of remote vehicles are received from the remote vehicles and collected by a host vehicle. A route of the host vehicle is used to filter the remote vehicles to those within an interest neighborhood of the host vehicle. A map is di...