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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2025
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Krishna Bandi, Novi, MI (US);
Meghna Menon, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Kalpak Kalvit, Milpitas, CA (US);
Mario Anthony Santillo, Canton, MI (US);
Vyas Shenoy, Canton, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A system includes a vehicle system provided with an autonomous vehicle. The vehicle system includes one or more computing devices configured to define a shared virtual secret key with an infrastructure server using a server public key obtained from the infrastructure server, generate a light code pattern to identify the autonomous vehicle using the shared virtual secret key and a code length, transmit a vehicle public key and blinking characteristics of the light code pattern, control one or more selected lighting devices of the autonomous vehicle to perform a flashing sequence indicative of the light code pattern, and transition to a marshalling operation state to have the autonomous vehicle be controlled by the infrastructure server in response to the autonomous vehicle being identified based on the flashing sequence.