US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 7 for "System and method for detecting vehicle intrusions" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,666, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method for detecting vehicle intrusions" was invented by Krishna Bandi (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Meghna Menon (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Bryan Michael Bolger (Canton, Mich.) and Brennan Hamilton (Birmingham, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes instructing a vehicle to autonomously navigate to a given parking space from among the plurality of parking spaces, setting the given parking space to an occupied state in response to the vehicle being positioned within the given parking space, and obtaining infrastructure sensor data ...