ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,186, issued on May 19.

"Systems and methods of interior sensor-based vehicle action actuation" was invented by John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.), Jun Lin (Westland, Mich.), Jialiang Le (Canton, Mich.) and Saeed David Barbat (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of performing a vehicle action based on an interior radar sensor that may be used to detect a user outside of the vehicle are provided. The interior radar sensor may be installed behind the center line of a headliner of the vehicle, and detect the user's head and/or an upper-body gesture through any window of the vehicle, e.g., upon detection of...