US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on March 4 for "Method for activating a function of a vehicle via an ultrawide band with an item of portable user equipment, associated system and device for activating a function" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,365, issued on March 4, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for activating a function of a vehicle via an ultrawide band with an item of portable user equipment, associated system and device for activating a function" was invented by Mohamed Cheikh (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for activating a vehicle function using portable user equipment communicating via ultra-wide band with an activation device on the vehicle. The activation of the vehicle function is carried out as a function of a position of the portable equipment relative to a boundary between an in...