ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,212, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Verizon Connect Development Ltd. (Dublin).
"Systems and methods for immobilizing a vehicle" was invented by Louis Burger (Dublin), Sean McGINN (Dublin), Mark Swords (Naas, Ireland), Anton G. Wigley (Dublin), Jose M. Gomez Monterrosa Jr. (Dublin) and Nicholas Hooper (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive an arming signal associated with immobilizing a vehicle. The device may monitor, based on receiving the arming signal, a current associated with an electrical power output from a battery of the vehicle. The device may detect that a measurement of the current satisfies a thre...