US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 27 for "Remote vehicle motive control with optimized mobile device localization" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,881, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Remote vehicle motive control with optimized mobile device localization" was invented by Ali Hassani (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Vivekanandh Elangovan (Canton, Mich.) and John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device localization system for a vehicle and a mobile device configured as a Phone-as-a-Key (PaaK) is described. The system includes a fob-free mode for performing remote control vehicle features using a selective mobile device localization technique that reduces motive functionality of the vehicle, based location o...