US Patent Issued to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES on March 17 for "Ultra-wideband-based method for activating a function of a vehicle with a portable user equipment item, associated system and device for activating a function" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,856, issued on March 17, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hannover, Germany).

"Ultra-wideband-based method for activating a function of a vehicle with a portable user equipment item, associated system and device for activating a function" was invented by Alain Brillon (Villeneuve-Tolosane, France) and Mohamed Cheikh (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for activating a vehicle function via ultra-wideband communication by an item of portable user equipment. The device includes a plurality of transceivers, the vehicle function activated depending on a position of the item of portable equip...