ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,265, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to KORE CO LLC (Frisco, Texas).

"Single use dongle vehicle key programming system and method" was invented by Ornis Mala (Buffalo grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for a single use device for customer vehicle key programming. The device takes the form of a so-called dongle that plugs into the vehicle OBD. The customer uses an application on a smartphone to communicate with the vehicle through the dongle on one end and with the system servers on the other."

The patent was filed on April 24, 2023, under Application No. 18/138,260.

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