US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 24 for "Systems and methods for conveying information about a traffic event via vehicle communications" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,347, issued on June 24, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for conveying information about a traffic event via vehicle communications" was invented by Subharthi Banerjee (Dearborn, Mich.) and Somak Datta Gupta (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods pertaining to a group of vehicles that cooperatively provide information about a traffic event. In an example embodiment, a method executed by a first processor in a first vehicle may involve detecting a trigger condition that portends a traffic event. The first vehicle may f...