ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,852, issued on April 14, was assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).
"Presence detection device with a radio antenna, for a motor vehicle" was invented by Olivier Gerardiere (Toulouse, France), Xavier Hourne (Toulouse, France) and Jerome Wroblewski (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system intended to be installed on a motor vehicle, comprising: a capacitive electrode (110), for implementing capacitive type presence detection; a transmitting and receiving antenna (120), surrounding the capacitive electrode (110); an electrically conductive line (130), located between the capacitive electrode and ...