US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Feb. 11 for "Method and apparatus for vehicle occupant location detection" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,432, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Method and apparatus for vehicle occupant location detection" was invented by Mark A. Cuddihy (New Boston, Mich.), Eric L. Reed (Livonia, Mich.), Manoharprasad K Rao (Novi, Mich.) and Thomas Lee Miller (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a plurality of wireless transmitters and a processor configured to: receive, from a mobile device, signal strengths of signals from the wireless transmitters as detected by the mobile device. The processor is also configured to determine a location of the mobile device in a vehicle,...