ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,665, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle door-off fob search" was invented by Paul Candiago (Windsor, Canada), Adithya Ramachandran (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Alejandro Valencia Priego (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Sneha Bagga (Pleasanton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a door sensor, a plurality of transceivers, a display, and one or more controllers. The one or more controllers, responsive to data from the door sensor indicating a corresponding door is absent from the vehicle, command the transceivers to each output a radio frequency signal to determine ...