US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Sept. 2 for "Managing communication between a user device and a vehicle" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,216, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Managing communication between a user device and a vehicle" was invented by Fai Yeung (Palo Alto, Calif.), Zhenxiang Kui (Langley, Canada), Leonid Kokhnovych (Burnaby, Canada) and Erhun Arkan (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for managing communications between a vehicle and a user device. A user device may be determined to be authorized to communicate with a vehicle. A signal strength of a signal transmitted between the vehicle and the user device is determined, and a determination is made whether the si...