US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 17 for "Passenger identifier seat access" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,154, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Passenger identifier seat access" was invented by Stephen Coe (Ariss, Canada), Joseph Wisniewski (Royal Oak, Mich.), Jennifer Ariane Shepherd Moore (Northville, Mich.) and Pavankumar Surabathula (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Responsive to detection of a personal device, a closest one of a plurality of HMIs to the personal device is identified. Responsive to an address store including a hardware address of the personal device, the configurable hardware address of the closest one of the plurality of HMIs is updated to be a HMI h...