US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 1 for "Wearable virtual keys for vehicle access" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,193, issued on July 1, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Wearable virtual keys for vehicle access" was invented by Krishna Bandi (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Sathyanarayana Chary Palakonda (Northville, Mich.) and Swetha Shailendra (Royal Oak, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing vehicle access is disclosed. The method may include obtaining a request to access a vehicle from a first user device. The method may further include determining whether the first user device is a user device registered with the vehicle. Responsive to determining that the first user device is unregistered, the ...