ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,932, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Automatic wireless vehicle anchor correction" was invented by Jean de Dieu Mutangana (Detroit), Ivan Vukovic (Birmingham, Mich.), Nicholas Alexander Scheufler (Flat Rock, Mich.), Sathyanarayana Chary Palakonda (Northville, Mich.) and Sanketh Venkatesh Prasad (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detection and correction of obstruction of vehicle wireless anchor points within a vehicle is performed. A wireless environment of a cabin of the vehicle is characterized using one or more ultra-wideband (UWB) transceivers of a phone-as-a-key (P...