ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,463, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Authentication system, in-vehicle authentication system, and authentication method" was invented by Daichi Suto (Miyagi, Japan), Takehiro Iwabuchi (Miyagi, Japan), Akira Miyazawa (Miyagi, Japan) and Masashi Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication system includes: a first communication device including: a first transmitting part configured to communicate in a first frequency band; and a first transmitting-and-receiving part configured to communicate in a second frequency band; and a second communication device inc...