ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,169, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Activation of facial recognition" was invented by Vivekanandh Elangovan (Canton, Mich.), Ryan Edwin Hanson (Livonia, Mich.), John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.), Brendan Francis Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.) and Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive range data from a range sensor of a vehicle, detect a person in proximity to the vehicle based on the range data, activate a camera of the vehicle up...