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US 12,648,556 B2Granted
Vehicle security
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsKeith Weston, John Robert Van Wiemeersch
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Abstract
A vehicle may detect an entity within a specified distance of a vehicle, determine that the entity has breached an interior of the vehicle, and based on a status of a vehicle component, actuate the vehicle component in response to detecting the breach of the interior of the vehicle.
Claims20
A system, comprising a computer having a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to:
- detect an animal within a specified distance of a vehicle;
- determine that an animal has breached from an exterior of the vehicle to an interior of the vehicle;
- and
- based on a status of a vehicle component, actuate the vehicle component in response to detecting the breach from the exterior of the vehicle to of the interior of the vehicle.
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A method comprising:
- detecting an animal within a specified distance of a vehicle;
- determining that an animal has breached from an exterior of the vehicle to an interior of the vehicle;
- and
- based on a status of a vehicle component, actuating the vehicle component in response to detecting the breach from the exterior to of the interior of the vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.