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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2019
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Ryan Joseph Gorski, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle includes doors, antennas, and processors. Each of the doors include an interface. The processors: (1) define, via the antennas, first zones and a second zone encompassing the first zones and surrounding the vehicle, each of the first zones associated with each of the doors; (2) in response to a mobile device entering the second zone, determine whether the mobile device is authenticated; (3) in response to the mobile device being authenticated, determine whether a user-interaction with the interface of one of the doors has occurred and determine, via the antennas, whether the mobile device is positioned in one of the first zones corresponding to said door; and (4) in response to detecting that the user-interaction has occurred and that the mobile device is positioned in said first zone, cause said door to unlock.