US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Marshalling status communication to a vehicle observer" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,703, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Marshalling status communication to a vehicle observer" was invented by George Edmund Walley (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for communicating a marshalling status of a vehicle to an observer located outside a vehicle. A memory storing instructions executable by a processor includes instructions to receive a marshalling command by the vehicle from a marshalling controller. The vehicle's marshalling state is changed in response to the marshalling command. The marshalling state is mapped to an optical output encoded for and u...