US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on Oct. 28 for "Method for detecting the presence of a liquid in a container by means of a near-field communication circuit" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,184, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for detecting the presence of a liquid in a container by means of a near-field communication circuit" was invented by Guilherme Germano Buchmeier (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting the presence of a liquid in a container by a near-field communication circuit that includes at least one coil surrounding the container. The method being designed to adopt a first communication mode, in which the circuit can communicate with a compatible object arranged in the container, and a second detection m...