Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle alert from a non-paired device
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Application No.: US16083166Application Date: 2016-03-09
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Publication No.: US10562495B2Publication Date: 2020-02-18
- Inventor: Johannes Geir Kristinsson , David Anthony Hatton , Hussein F. Nasrallah , Thomas Nelson , Krishnaswamy Venkatesh Prasad
- Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Dearborn
- Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Dearborn
- Agency: Brooks Kushman PC
- Agent Brandon Hicks
- International Application: PCT/US2016/021477 WO 20160309
- International Announcement: WO2017/155525 WO 20170914
- Main IPC: B60R25/24
- IPC: B60R25/24 ; H04L29/06 ; H04W12/06 ; B60Q1/48 ; B60R25/102 ; H04W12/00 ; B60R25/30

Abstract:
A vehicle includes a horn, a plurality of exterior lights, and at least one controller. The at least one controller is configured to grant vehicle system access to a nomadic device paired to the vehicle, and in response to receiving a message that contains data identifying a source of the message while the vehicle is in a key-off state from a nomadic device not paired to the vehicle, activate the horn and exterior lights according to respective patterns.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190092283A1 VEHICLE ALERT FROM A NON-PAIRED DEVICE Public/Granted day:2019-03-28
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