US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Vehicle assistance in smart infrastructure node assist zone" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,816, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle assistance in smart infrastructure node assist zone" was invented by Helen E. Kourous-Harrigan (Monroe, Mich.), Qi Chen (Canton, Mich.), Siddharth Agarwal (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ankit Girish Vora (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Umair Ibrahim (San Jose, Calif.) and Patrick Carmody (Dexter, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for operating a vehicle operating on a route that will pass within a predetermined distance of a smart infrastructure node (IX Node) includes: retrieving, prior to receiving a message from the IX Node, data about...