ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,247, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hannover, Germany).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptive method for activating a vehicle function using a user's portable device and communicating in ultra-wideband with the vehicle. The function being activated based on the portable device's location by applying a predictive model trained beforehand using pairs of predetermined received signal strength values and pre...