US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 14 for "System and method to locate and track portable devices about a vehicle using wireless communication techniques" (Michigan, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,640, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method to locate and track portable devices about a vehicle using wireless communication techniques" was invented by Sathyanarayana Chary Palakonda (Northville, Mich.), Ivan Vukovic (Birmingham, Mich.), Jeffrey Wallat (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Jean de Dieu Mutangana (Detroit) and Lisa Gentile (Ave Maria, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system includes a first communication device, a plurality of second communication devices, and a controller. The first communication device is configured to communicate using a first wirel...