US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Vehicle digital key management on a blockchain" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,663, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle digital key management on a blockchain" was invented by Vladimir Stefanovski (Windsor, Canada), Karl Nathan Clark (Belleville, Mich.), Riaz Ulla (Lasalle, Canada) and Zoheb Mohammed (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for storing vehicle, vehicle owner, and vehicle operator data on a blockchain, the data including smart contracts that may be executed to control a usage of the vehicle via customizable permissions. In an embodiment, a vehicle management system comprises a blockchain; a stre...