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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2017
GM Gobal Technology Operations Llc, Detroit, MI (US);
Anil K. Sachdev, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Nathan F. Thompson, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Anil Singh Bika, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Aravind Gangumalla, Novi, MI (US);
Jenne-tai Wang, Rochester, MI (US);
GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A system implemented at a user structure, to monitor a tracked object using a three-body arrangement including the user, a tracked object, and a controlling apparatus. The system has a data storage device including user-presence module code causing a processor to determine, based on wireless sensing, whether the user has entered a first space having a boundary external to the user structure, or has left the space. Object-presence module code causes the processor to determine, based on tracked-object-presence data, whether the tracked object is within a second space. And the storage device includes alert-module code to, in response to determining that, depending on the embodiment, (i) the user entered or exited the first space and (ii) the tracked object is or is not present within the second space, initiate provision of a system-user alert communication to indicate that the tracked object is not present within the second sensed space.