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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2016
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Ryan Edwin Hanson, Livonia, MI (US);
Stephen Scott Wieland, Commerce Township, MI (US);
Assignee:
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 9/00309 (2013.01); G07C 2009/00984 (2013.01); Y02D 70/00 (2018.01);
Abstract
A key fob includes: communicator(s), a battery, memory, and processor(s) configured to: find signal strengths of received polls; determine, based on the signal strengths, that the received polls have: (a) increased, (b) decreased, (c) leveled off; and if (a), issue a poll response; if (c), not issue the poll response.