ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,719, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Enhanced vehicle activation" was invented by Ming Lang Kuang (Canton, Mich.), Mark Douglas Malone (Canton, Mich.), Daniel M. King (Northville, Mich.), Yuming Niu (Northville, Mich.), David Celinske (Wolverine Lake, Mich.), Scott J. Lauffer (Northville, Mich.), Ray Siciak (Ann Arbor, Mich.), John David Jorgensen (Carleton, Mich.), Jayeshkumar Ramani (Taylor, Mich.) and Suvrat Jain (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to receive a requ...