US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 17 for "Portable tools for use as vehicle security devices" (Michigan, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,808, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Portable tools for use as vehicle security devices" was invented by Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.), John R. Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.), Brendan F. Diamond (Naples, Fla.), Matthew J. Flis (Northville, Mich.) and Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle security system controls access to vehicle functions when a user triggers vehicle access while carrying a first portable wireless token. Stored attributes for the first token are retrieved from a memory which stores respective attributes for a plurality of wirel...