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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2024
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Krishna Bandi, Novi, MI (US);
Sathyanarayana Chary Palakonda, Northville, MI (US);
Mario Anthony Santillo, Canton, MI (US);
Meghna Menon, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Karthikeya Singirikonda, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A method includes the receipt of one or more vehicle marshaling messages, the transmission of an infrastructure-initiated certification key associated with the vehicle, the receipt of a vehicle-initiated certification key based on one or more nodes of the vehicle verifying the infrastructure-initiated certification key, the verification that the vehicle-initiated certification key corresponds to an identify of the vehicle, and the generation of a virtual bounding box indicative of a current location of the vehicle.