ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,388, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle siren system and method" was invented by Michael Serebrennikov (West Bloomfield, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle comprises a camera system located on the vehicle and oriented to capture images in an imaged area along a travel path of the vehicle, a navigation system comprising map data, and a siren is located on the vehicle and configured to output different audible sounds in a plurality of siren modes. A controller processes the images that are captured with the camera system and the map data, and identifies an event based ...