ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,173, issued on March 3, was assigned to DENSO International America Inc. (Southfield, Mich.) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Localization and passive entry/passive start systems and methods for vehicles" was invented by Kyle Golsch (Pontiac, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for localization and passive entry/passive start (PEPS) systems for vehicles are provided. A communication gateway in a vehicle configured to establish a Bluetooth low energy (BLE) communication connection with a portable device. Sensors are configured to measure signal information about a communication signal sent from the portable devic...