US Patent Issued to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES on July 7 for "Method for activating a vehicle function, and associated activation device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,639, issued on July 7, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for activating a vehicle function, and associated activation device" was invented by Mohamed Cheikh (Toulouse, France), Rachid Benbouhout (Auterive, France) and Benjamin Dubois (Bailleau-l'Eveque, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for activating a vehicle function, by way of an activation device, based on a visual recognition of a user. The activation device including at least one camera oriented toward the outside of the vehicle and equipped with visual recognition, and at least one ultra-wideband transceiver for ...