ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,663, issued on May 6, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods for onboard vehicle certificate distribution" was invented by Michael David Sorensen (Pittsburgh), Matthew Charles Ellis Wood (Pittsburgh) and Matthew James Harris (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for onboard vehicle certificate distribution are provided. A system can include a plurality of devices including a master device for authenticating processes and one or more requesting devices. The master device can include a master host security service configured to authenticate the one or more processes of the sys...