US Patent Issued to Panasonic Avionics on July 15 for "Secure access and presentation of passenger-specific information" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,624, issued on July 15, was assigned to Panasonic Avionics Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Secure access and presentation of passenger-specific information" was invented by Jonas Hasselgren (Umea, Sweden), Andreas Hedin (Malmo, Sweden) and Robert Magnusson (Malmo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to providing authenticated access to passenger-specific information at a seatback device of a vehicle based on connection with personal passenger devices. A method includes obtaining a unique identifier associated with a passenger device that is wirelessly connected with a seatback device located in a vehicl...