US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on Oct. 6 for "Method for activating a vehicle function and associated activation device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,303, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for activating a vehicle function and associated activation device" was invented by Stephane Billy (Grenade, France) and Sylvain Godet (Saint Cezert, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for activating a vehicle function using an activation device, having at least two transceivers communicating with a portable user appliance and communicating with each other via ultra-wideband communication. The method includes: transmitting using a first transceiver; computing a radius of a circle centered around the first transceive...