US Patent Issued to Volkswagen on July 14 for "Mobile access system for granting access to a device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,305, issued on July 14, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Mobile access system for granting access to a device" was invented by Raul Otero Fafian (Hannover, Germany) and Andre SchwaB (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile access system for granting access to a device, particularly a vehicle, is disclosed. The system includes a transmitter unit for wirelessly transmitting an unlock signal, a sensor unit with a gyroscopic sensor for detecting movement, and a control unit connected to the sensor unit. The control unit receives sensor data, recognizes a sequence of movements, checks if it matche...