ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,521, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to OSHKOSH Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Vehicle control system" was invented by Bryan Datema (Rochester, Minn.), Cody Clifton (Oshkosh, Wis.), Xiang Gong (Oshkosh, Wis.), Zhenyi Wei (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Shashank Bhatia (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system includes a vehicle with a vehicle controller and an electric drive motor, and a portable user device. The portable user device includes a user interface and processor configured to perform a verification process to verify that the portable user device has access to the vehicle, wirelessly connect to the vehicle via a ...