US Patent Issued on Dec. 23 for "Vehicle security systems and methods" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,847, issued on Dec. 23.

"Vehicle security systems and methods" was invented by David Hiskens (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Joshua Wheeler (Trenton, Mich.), Justin Miller (Berkley, Mich.) and Jonathan Diedrich (Carleton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle having a vehicle camera, a detection unit, and a processor is disclosed. The vehicle camera may be configured to capture a video feed in a camera field of view. The detection unit may be configured to measure vibrations caused by malicious events associated with the vehicle. The processor may be configured to obtain a trigger signal, and activate the detection unit responsive to ob...