US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on July 8 for "Method for activating a vehicle function and associated activation device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,128, issued on July 8, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for activating a vehicle function and associated activation device" was invented by Christophe Grisey (Colomiers, France) and Xavier Bressan (Escalquens, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for activating a function of a motor vehicle by an activation device including a plurality of transceivers capable of transmitting to the world outside the vehicle, from portable access equipment carried by a user. Activation of the function being triggered by detection of the presence of the user in a predetermined area around th...