US Patent Issued to DENSO on Feb. 3 for "Lock control device and vehicle digital key system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,826, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Lock control device and vehicle digital key system" was invented by Katsuhiro Ohara (Kariya, Japan), Kensho Taki (Kariya, Japan) and Kunihiko Hayashi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lock control system or a vehicle digital key system including an in-vehicle device, a mobile device, and a server controls operations of a plurality of authentication sensors for authenticating a user of a vehicle by at least one of a plurality of authentication methods. Thereby, it is possible to reduce a power consumption during standby."

The patent was filed on July 17...