US Patent Issued to FCA US on July 14 for "Smart key battery power management and sensing" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,707, issued on July 14, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Smart key battery power management and sensing" was invented by Ahmad N Saleh (Rochester, Mich.) and Ansaf I Alrabady (Livonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system to manage keyless entry functionality and communication of a vehicle includes a wireless control module (WCM) configured to be disposed within the vehicle and control one or more keyless entry functions, and a vehicle access device (VAD) to provide keyless entry functionality to a user. The VAD includes a battery powering a wireless communication device (WCD) for communicat...