US Patent Issued to BlackBerry on Sept. 16 for "System and method for portable user and vehicle settings" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,476, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"System and method for portable user and vehicle settings" was invented by Abhishek Shukla (Ottawa), Sue Hsiu Ying Ludwig (Mississauga, Canada), Adam Richard Schieman (Toronto) and Geordon Thomas Ferguson (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for applying user settings to a vehicle is provided. The method includes receiving user settings for a first vehicle, at a second vehicle, and locking access to the user settings on the second vehicle. The user settings being associated with a user. The method includes unlock...