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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2023
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Krishna Bandi, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Meghna Menon, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Somak Datta Gupta, Novi, MI (US);
Gregory P. Linkowski, Dearborn, MI (US);
Mario Anthony Santillo, Canton, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A method of wirelessly communicating status information of one or more vehicles with one or more infrastructures including the receipt of an onboarding process trigger based on a current status associated with a pre-onboarding process of the one or more vehicles, the determination of a current status associated with an onboarding process of the one or more vehicles based on the onboarding process trigger and an autonomous vehicle marshaling algorithm, and the output of an indication corresponding to the current status associated with the onboarding process of the one or more vehicles via exterior lights of the one or more vehicles to the one or more infrastructures or one or more human operators.