US Patent Issued to DENSO International America, DENSO on Sept. 23 for "Methods and systems for preconditioning a vehicle prior to a vehicle-sharing session" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,841, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to DENSO International America Inc. (Southfield, Mich.) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Methods and systems for preconditioning a vehicle prior to a vehicle-sharing session" was invented by Christian Munte (Southfield, Mich.), Martin Nespolo (Gross Pointe Woods, Mich.), Nandhinee Kandasamy (Novi, Mich.) and Mustafa Mahmoud (Farmington, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of remotely activating a vehicle system of a vehicle, the vehicle being part of a vehicle-share enterprise, the method including generating a control signal based on session parameters associated with a vehicle-shari...