US Patent Issued to IKEYLESS on July 7 for "System, method and apparatus for mobile fob or key bridge, versatile smart key, and smart device interface" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,637, issued on July 7, was assigned to IKEYLESS LLC (Louisville, Ky.).

"System, method and apparatus for mobile fob or key bridge, versatile smart key, and smart device interface" was invented by Douglas Lawrence Robertson (Louisville, Ky.), Adam Lee Pizer (Louisville, Ky.), Florian Luaire (Louisville, Ky.) and Pradnya Deokar (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A universal smart key (USK) provides advanced proximity, location, distance or ranging capabilities and communicates with vehicles and smart phones to perform a set of vehicle-related operations and replicates OEM key and may include one or more of Bluetooth, BLE, U...