US Patent Issued to ZF CV Systems Global on May 20 for "Method and system for triggering a function in a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,425, issued on May 20, was assigned to ZF CV Systems Global GmbH (Bern, Switzerland).

"Method and system for triggering a function in a vehicle" was invented by Konrad Feyerabend (Hannover, Germany), Philip Meyer-Rossler (Giesen, Germany) and Florian Rehm (Wennigsen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for activating a vehicle function, wherein a controller for activating the vehicle function checks an access authorization of the mobile device and activates the vehicle function only if the authorization is acceptable. The method includes: a) the controller sending a request to the mobile device demanding transmission o...