Patent ID: 11915538
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 19:
20. A method comprising:
determining a currently activatable feature on a vehicle from a plurality of features;
establishing negotiations between each of a plurality of Ultra-Wideband (UWB) anchors of the vehicle and at least one mobile device;
selecting a search strategy from a plurality of search strategies based on the currently activatable feature;
upon selecting a first strategy as the search strategy, during a search iteration, determining distance data to the at least one mobile device from a first subset of the UWB anchors, and inhibiting a remainder of the UWB anchors other than the first subset, wherein the first strategy defines the first subset;
performing a trilateral calculation on the distance data for the at least one mobile device; and
actuating a component of the vehicle according to the currently activatable feature based on a result of the trilateral calculation.