ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,733, issued on May 13, was assigned to GUANGZHOU AUTOMOBILE GROUP Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Vehicle digital certificate management method and device" was invented by Qingquan Huang (Guangdong, China), Jinchi Zhang (Guangdong, China), Xiaosheng Shi (Guangdong, China) and Zicheng Zhang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle digital certificate management method and a device thereof. The vehicle digital certificate management method comprises: after a vehicle-mounted network connection terminal is powered on, performing an initialization on a universal digital certificate, and if the universal digital certificate...