US Patent Issued on April 14 for "Systems and methods for controlling vehicle component operation based on user device movement pattern" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,216, issued on April 14.

"Systems and methods for controlling vehicle component operation based on user device movement pattern" was invented by Ivan Vukovic (Birmingham, Mich.), Jean de Dieu Mutangana (Detroit), Sathyanarayana Chary Palakonda (Northville, Mich.) and Bradley G. Hochrein (Dexter, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including a detection unit and a processor is disclosed. The detection unit may be configured to receive a position information from a user device in proximity to the vehicle. The processor may be configured to determine that the user device may be moving in a predefined pattern in proximity to ...