ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,648, issued on Oct. 7.

"Systems and methods for ultra-wide band based vehicle sensing" was invented by Sai Prasanth Velusamy (Canton, Mich.) and Vivekanandh Elangovan (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including an ultra-wide band (UWB) transceiver is disclosed. The UWB transceiver may be configured to operate in a first mode and a second mode. The UWB transceiver may be configured to perform phone-as-a-key (PaaK) localization in the first mode and radar sensing in the second mode. The vehicle may further include a processor configured to activate the UWB transceiver in the first mode. The processor may receive a ...