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US 12,345,225 B2Granted
Remote vehicular interrupter
OwnerJeremy Van Winkleinventor
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Abstract
A system and method of remotely interrupting the function of a vehicle using hardware components installed within a housing and a data processing device (DPD), such as a smart phone, in logical communication with one of the vehicle and the case via a WAN or LAN, wherein an ignition request is relayed via a network.
Claims4
A method of remotely interrupting function of a vehicle, the steps of the method comprising:
- combining a plurality of hardware components into a housing, the plurality of hardware components including an electromechanical relay and a wireless module having a universally unique identifier (UUID), and service wires;
- installing the housing and wireless harness within the vehicle such that the relay is installed in an electrical control circuit (ECU) controlling one of:
- a vehicle starter, a throttle, and vehicle spark plugs;
- initiating an ignition request using a mobile software application on a data processing device (DPD) in logical communication with the relay via a WAN, the ignition request comprising:
- a unique identifier exclusively associated with the vehicle, GPS coordinates, and one or more enabling timestamps and one or disabling timestamps;
- creating one or more encrypted ignition instructions consisting of less than all of the information contained in a corresponding ignition request;
- relaying each encrypted ignition instruction to a vehicle exclusively-associated with a single encrypted ignition instruction;
- storing all ignition requests and encrypted ignition instructions in persistent computer-readable memory;
- energizing the relay in response to receiving an ignition request;
- geofencing the vehicle within a predetermined geographic area such that the vehicle is automatically disabled when the vehicle exits the predetermined geographic area;
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- starting the vehicle at a time indicated by an enabling timestamp in the ignition request;
- disabling the vehicle at a time indicated by a disabling timestamp in the ignition request.
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