ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,201, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Ford Motor Co. (Dearborn, Mich.).
"System and method of adjusting the automated plant marshaling based on dynamic RF signals" was invented by Krishna Bandi (Novi, Mich.), Gregory P. Linkowski (Dearborn, Mich.), Meghna Menon (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Mario Anthony Santillo (Canton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling vehicle movement includes: obtaining, by a vehicle, at least one radio frequency (RF) signal metric for a plurality of RF signals broadcasted in a manufacturing environment; broadcasting, by the vehicle, a vehicle message when the at least one RF signal metric...