US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on June 16 for "Method for activating a vehicle function and associated activation device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,471, issued on June 16, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for activating a vehicle function and associated activation device" was invented by Alain Brillon (Villeneuve-Tolosane, France), Stephane Charbonnier (Labarthe sur Leze, France) and Patrick Belenguer (Cornebarrieu, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for starting a motor vehicle by an activation device, from a user's portable device. The method includes: Detecting closure of the opening elements of the vehicle; Transmitting ultra-wideband waves into the passenger compartment; Receiving the waves and, for each trans...