US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 22 for "Hideable security key using near field communication" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,309, issued on July 22, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Hideable security key using near field communication" was invented by John R. Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.), Vivekanandh Elangovan (Canton, Mich.), Thomas J. Hermann (Troy, Mich.) and Eugene Karpinsky (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hideable security key for a vehicle comprises a protective body which receives a fastening member configured to hold the hideable security key to an externally-accessible surface of the vehicle. A near-field communication (NFC) antenna is disposed in the protective body. An NFC controller is d...