US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on Nov. 4 for "Method for ascertaining a current distance between a motor vehicle and a mobile electronic identification device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,627, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for ascertaining a current distance between a motor vehicle and a mobile electronic identification device" was invented by Konrad Betz (Stuttgart, Germany), Matthias Reinhardt (Sindelfingen, Germany) and Ozgur Mutlu (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the position of a mobile electronic identification device relative to a motor vehicle that can be unlocked by the identification device is provided. In a step a) at least one signal is transmitted from the motor vehicle to the identification device via the f...