ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,478, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Wireless communication system" was invented by Jun Fujiyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Jun Ogawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshichika Hoya (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a vehicle and a smartphone are in a second communication state, the vehicle can operate, and then if the vehicle and the smartphone are not in the second communication state for a predetermined time or longer, and if a main switch of the vehicle detects a predetermined operation, an emergency advertising is transmitted from the vehicle. Thereby, the smartphon...