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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2017
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Perry Robinson MacNeille, Lathrup Village, MI (US);
Omar Makke, Oakland, MI (US);
Jeffrey Yeung, Canton, MI (US);
Yimin Liu, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Oleg Yurievitch Gusikhin, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Ayush Shah, Dearborn, MI (US);
Assignee:
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/48 (2018.01); H01Q 3/38 (2006.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/48 (2018.02); H01Q 3/38 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02);
Abstract
A computer that is programmed to: receive a request from a communication module in a vehicle to communicate with an ant-sized radio (ASR) device in the vehicle; in response to the request, concurrently steer two different radio frequency (RF) beams onto the ASR device; and based on steering the beams: transmit an instruction to the ASR device, or provide sensor data received from the ASR device to the module.