US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 1 for "Multi-factor authentication and access control in a vehicular environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,962, issued on July 1, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Multi-factor authentication and access control in a vehicular environment" was invented by Haris Ramic (San Francisco), Victor Chan (Mountain View, Calif.), Vikas Gupta (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Lingjun Li (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems and methods described herein can include a digital assistant application that receives sensor signals from sensors installed in a vehicle and determines an entry event into the vehicle. The digital assistant application can receive, responsive to the entry event into the vehicle, a plurality authenti...