ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,926, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hannover, Germany).
"Device for activating a vehicle function" was invented by Guilherme Germano Buchmeier (Toulouse, France), Brahim Aloui (Toulouse, France) and Gregory Siguier (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for activating a vehicle function. The device being intended to be housed on board a vehicle and includes at least one ultra-wideband communication antenna and at least one near-field communication antenna in order to communicate with an item of portable equipment carried by a user. The function being activated based on ...