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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2015
GM Global Technology Operations Llc, Detroit, MI (US);
Vyacheslav Berezin, New Market, CA;
Shaun S. Marshall, Post Perry, CA;
Moshe Laifenfeld, Haifa, IL;
Timothy J. Talty, Beverly Hills, MI (US);
GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A system and method of locating a key fob with respect to a vehicle includes: communicating between a plurality of directional sensors used by the vehicle and a key fob via a short-range wireless signal; generating signal data at the plurality of directional sensors or the key fob indicative of one or more attributes of the short-range wireless signal; generating location information based on the one or more attributes by processing the signal data generated by the plurality of directional sensors or the key fob; and determining the location of the key fob relative to the vehicle based on the generated location information.