US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 29 for "Path-based detection of user approach for passive entry" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,977, issued on July 29, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Path-based detection of user approach for passive entry" was invented by Sathyanarayana Chary Palakonda (Northville, Mich.), Jeffrey Wallat (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Ivan Vukovic (Birmingham, Mich.) and Kirsen J. Quan (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Path-based approach to passive vehicle entry is provided. A vehicle receives messages over a first protocol from a mobile device, each of the messages indicating a heading of the mobile device and a current location of the mobile device. The vehicle and the mobile device pair respon...