Patent ID: 9685013
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: B60R,G07C

Claim:
1. A method for authenticating components of a vehicle, the method comprising: detecting a presence of a key fob and transmitting a wake up pattern signal to wake up the key fob using an inductive transmitter; using the inductive transmitter, waking up tags attached to the components of the vehicle and transmitting an interrogation signal to the tags attached to the components of the vehicle from an authentication base station installed in the vehicle in response to a trigger event including receiving an unlock signal from the key fob; using a ultra-high frequency (UHF) receiver, receiving a response signal that includes an authentication code from one or more of the tags attached to the components of the vehicle at the authentication base station; comparing the authentication code from each of the responding tags with an authentication code key at the authentication base station to authenticate the responding tags; and transmitting a disengage signal to an immobilizer installed in the vehicle from the authentication base station to enable the vehicle if not all the tags have been authenticated and if an override code is received from the key fob or a key remote.