US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on June 24 for "Key fob mesh networking with automotive applications" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,257, issued on June 24, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Key fob mesh networking with automotive applications" was invented by Mohsen Bahrami (Birmingham, Mich.), James Wilhelm Heaton (Saline, Mich.) and Hamed Asadi (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mesh device communication is provided. A dictionary of indexes corresponding to different messages is stored to a cache memory of an access device. A message is received via a transceiver of the access device. The cache memory is accessed to look up the message to identify an index corresponding to the message. The message is propagated, via the t...