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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2018
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Matthew Affeldt, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle system is provided. The vehicle system may include a processor configured to detect a wireless device based on a received device signal when a vehicle is at an origin location, add the detected device to a tracking list, register a trigger event away from the origin location, and, responsive to detection of the trigger event, attempt to detect devices on the tracking list. The processor may be further configured to report, to a vehicle occupant, all devices on the tracking list not detected by the attempt. The received device signal may be from a radio-frequency identification sensor. The received device signal may transfer to the processor via Wi-Fi. The received device signal may transfer to the processor via BLUETOOTH. The trigger event may be a vehicle start-up.