US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor, Renault on June 24 for "On-board equipment control device and on-board equipment control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,163, issued on June 24, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan) and Renault S.A.S. (Boulogne-Billancourt, France).

"On-board equipment control device and on-board equipment control method" was invented by Maiko Komine (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoto Kajiyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Sou Tamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomokazu Furuya (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroshi Nishimura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An on-board equipment control device includes a storage device a storage device and a controller. The controller performs a first authentication based on a signal transmitted from a wireless device held by a user and per...