US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on March 25 for "System and method for key absence management in a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,978, issued on March 25, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for key absence management in a vehicle" was invented by Meng Jiang (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Louis G. Hector Jr. (Shelby Township, Mich.), Yongjie Zhu (Troy, Mich.) and David T. Proefke (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for key absence management in a vehicle configured to be started by an electronic key fob includes a key absence management controller that implements a method configured to authorize starting of the vehicle by monitoring presence and absence of the electronic key fob in the vehicle. If the c...