US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods for function based vehicle geofencing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,016, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for function based vehicle geofencing" was invented by Ryan Kent (San Mateo, Calif.) and Andrew Trevor Belk (Watsonville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes one or more processors, coupled with memory, of a vehicle. The system detects execution of a function of the vehicle. The system identifies, responsive to detection of the execution of the function, a location of the vehicle. The system determines that the location of the vehicle satisfies the geofence. The system can determine that the location satisfies the g...