US Patent Issued to DENSO International America, DENSO on Aug. 12 for "Passive entry/passive start systems and methods" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,329, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DENSO International America Inc. (Southfield, Mich.) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Passive entry/passive start systems and methods" was invented by Kyle Golsch (Pontiac, Mich.) and Steven Sute (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor is configured to receive connection information from a portable device via a communication gateway and communicate with a portable device using impulse radio (IR) ultra-wide band (UWB) communication based on the connection information. A location of the portable device is determined based on ranging using IR UWB communication."

The patent was f...