MUMBAI, India, Sept. 12 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517079788 A) filed by Cerence Operating Company, Burlington, U.S.A., on Aug. 22, for 'configurable vehicle authorization using local biometric authentication.'

Inventor(s) include Boudreau, Alexandre; and Anani, Khaled.

The application for the patent was published on Sept. 12, under issue no. 37/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A biometric authenticator for use by an application executing on a vehicle's infotainment system carries out a biometric authentication procedure that is tailored to dynamically varying context information that is obtained by vehicle sensors."

The patent application was intern...