US Patent Issued to DENSO on Jan. 27 for "Authentication management device and authentication management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,254, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Authentication management device and authentication management method" was invented by Hajime Nomura (Kariya, Japan), Yusuke Tanaka (Kariya, Japan), Yuka Ito (Kariya, Japan) and Takanari Makita (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication management device includes an authenticator unit, a manager unit, and a verifier unit. The authenticator unit is configured to check an authentication status of a user of a vehicle and an authorization status of an operation related to the vehicle based on an authentication information of the user and an authori...