US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on June 16 for "Method for locating a user equipment with respect to a motor vehicle" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,121, issued on June 16, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for locating a user equipment with respect to a motor vehicle" was invented by Sylvain Godet (Saint Cezert, France) and Burak Sahinbas (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for locating a user equipment with respect to a motor vehicle, including the following steps, carried out iteratively when the user is in motion: determining what is referred to as the "inter-object" distance between an ultra-wideband communication module of the vehicle and the user equipment; computing what is referred to as the "in...