ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,948, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for managing the access of a user to a motor vehicle" was invented by Christophe Grisey (Toulouse, France), Cedric Boudet (Toulouse, France) and Vincent Jamart (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing functions of a motor vehicle for a user of the vehicle, notably including the steps of parameterizing the secondary computer with the configuration determined, of detecting at least one event corresponding to a triggering beacon or to a message received from the main computer, of obtaining, in the m...