ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,647, issued on July 15, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Adaptive exhaust control for remote start" was invented by Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.) and John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes receives a remote start request from a user, responsive to the request, engage at least one vehicle sensor to determine whether at least an animal or person are within at least a predefined distance from an exhaust or external sounder of the vehicle. Additionally, the vehicle, responsive to determining that the animal or person are withing the predefined distance, del...