ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,863, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Enhanced occupant detection" was invented by Jun Lin (Westland, Mich.) and Jialiang Le (Canton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data are received from a vehicle sensor detecting a vehicle passenger and then determine that a vehicle has transitioned to a parked state from a non-parked state. Upon determining that the vehicle is in the parked state, a first output is provided to a user interface based on the data detecting the vehicle passenger prior to elapsing of an activation time of the vehicle sensor that collected the data of the vehicle p...