US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Dynamic vehicle based ultra-wide band anchors" (Michigan, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,426, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Dynamic vehicle based ultra-wide band anchors" was invented by Somak Datta Gupta (Novi, Mich.) and Arpita Chand (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Localization is performed using a dynamic mesh of vehicle-based Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) anchors. One or more vehicle-based UWB anchors are detected using fixed-location infrastructure UWB anchors, the one or more vehicle-based UWB anchors being components of a vehicle used for access control to the vehicle. The one or more vehicle-based UWB anchors are joined to a mesh of UWB anchors for loc...