US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 24 for "Responder assistance for vehicular events" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,779, issued on June 24, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Responder assistance for vehicular events" was invented by Joseph Walter Neal (Birmingham, Mich.), Jeremy Lerner (Southfield, Mich.), Mohammad Abouali (Canton, Mich.), Ali Abdallah (Dearborn, Mich.), Xingping Chen (Troy, Mich.) and Scott Huggins (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes one or more sensors and engages at least one of the one or more sensors to evaluate at least one of a count or location of vehicle occupants prior to an incident. The vehicle determines that an incident has occurred and that at least one of an...