US Patent Issued to Jaguar Land Rover on March 25 for "Control method and apparatus for controlling operation of an access control device for a vehicle" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,977, issued on March 25, was assigned to Jaguar Land Rover Ltd. (Coventry, Great Britain).

"Control method and apparatus for controlling operation of an access control device for a vehicle" was invented by Howard Siswick (Coventry, Great Britain), Mohammed Khan (Coventry, Great Britain) and John Davies (Coventry, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a controller (20) for controlling operation of an access control device (2) for a vehicle (3). The access control device (2) is selectively operable in a first operating mode (P1) and a second operating mode (P2). The access control device (2) is...