ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,375, issued on March 31, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of detecting status of user outside vehicle, system, storage medium and vehicle thereof" was invented by Edgar Knight (Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system detects a status of a user outside a vehicle. The system includes a wireless communication interface to communicate with a portable communication device to be carried by the user; a time managing unit, one or more processors coupled with the wireless communication interface and the time managing unit. and a memory couple with the one or more processors. The memory stores data and program ins...