US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Dec. 30 for "Method and system for authenticating and securing vehicular services" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,020, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Method and system for authenticating and securing vehicular services" was invented by Md Mhafuzul Islam (Warren, Mich.), Asif Rabbani (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Randy L. Swafford (Chesterfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of authenticating and securing a vehicular service includes receiving, by a controller of a vehicle, an activation signal. The activation signal is indicative that the vehicular service has been requested by a vehicle user. The method further includes determining whether a registered vehicle operator of the v...