US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 2 for "Central authority for certifying unbonded access to a vehicle via a digital key device" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,862, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Central authority for certifying unbonded access to a vehicle via a digital key device" was invented by Emelie Jess Ashdown (San Diego) and Nicholas Ryan Miller (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for certifying unbonded access to a vehicle are disclosed herein. An example method includes receiving, by a vehicle and from a computing system, a service identifier associated with a function of the vehicle, wherein the vehicle stores one or more device identifiers for each digital key device in communication with the vehicle, receiving, from a di...