US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Oct. 7 for "Verification of vehicle ownership for accessing vehicle data and software" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,664, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Verification of vehicle ownership for accessing vehicle data and software" was invented by Yozo Takehara (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device and method for verification of vehicle ownership for accessing vehicle data and software is provided. The electronic device receives, via a user device, a request to access a software application associated with a vehicle that is in a first operational state. The electronic device transmits, to the user device, first information that causes the user device to render one or more actio...