ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,901, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Cooperative sensor sharing" was invented by Syed Amaar Ahmad (Canton, Mich.) and Jayanthi Rao (West Bloomfield, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first connected message is received, by a controller of a host vehicle, from a remote vehicle via a transceiver of the host vehicle. The first connected message indicates a first object along a roadway detected by the remote vehicle. Presence of a second object along the roadway is identified using sensors of the host vehicle. A probability function is utilized to determine a result indicative of w...