US Patent Issued to Emerging Automotive on June 24 for "Methods and systems for sharing e-keys to access vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,715, issued on June 24, was assigned to Emerging Automotive LLC (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for sharing e-keys to access vehicles" was invented by Angel A. Penilla (Sacramento, Calif.) and Albert S. Penilla (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided. One method includes processing operations to share electronic keys (e-keys). The method includes receiving a request to share an electronic key (e-key) of a vehicle with a recipient device. The request to share the e-key is initiated by sending a message to the recipient device using a sharing device. The method includes processi...