US Patent Issued to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE on June 24 for "Method for locating a communication device in proximity to a vehicle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,350, issued on June 24, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for locating a communication device in proximity to a vehicle" was invented by Rachid Benbouhout (Toulouse, France) and Thomas Eichstetter (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for locating a communication device borne by a user in proximity to a vehicle in order to trigger at least one function of said vehicle, the method especially including, in a locating phase, steps of detection of a set of obstacles, called "current" obstacles, of identification of the communication device in the set of current obstacles and of l...