US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on Sept. 29 for "Location-based function control for a vehicle" (Georgia, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,439, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Textron Innovations LLC (Providence, R.I.).

"Location-based function control for a vehicle" was invented by Nicholas Alexander Hoffman (North Augusta, S.C.), Brianna Danielle Harrington (Augusta, Ga.) and Matthew Jacob Noftsger (Evans, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A golf vehicle system includes a golf vehicle including an auxiliary system. The golf vehicle system further includes at least one processing circuit configured to: detect that the golf vehicle is in proximity to a location of interest associated with an automated modification of a function of the auxiliary system from a first...