US Patent Issued to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 14 for "Method for activating a vehicle function and associated activation device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,274, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for activating a vehicle function and associated activation device" was invented by Mohamed Cheikh (Toulouse, France) and Sebastien Chanal (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for activating a vehicle function, by an activation device including a transceiver to communicate with "hands-free" access equipment. The transceiver is equipped with a gyroscope and a magnetometer and two receiving antennas that have a coefficient of electromagnetic coupling between them that is below a threshold. The method includ...