ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,597, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Platform Science Inc. (San Diego).

"Method and system for a temporary secure connection between a vehicle device and an authorized network" was invented by John C. Kennedy (San Diego), Don Son (San Diego), Scott Kopchinsky (San Diego) and Matthew Garofalo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (100) and method (250) for a temporary secure connection between a vehicle device (135) for a vehicle (1000) and wireless authorized network (60) is disclosed herein. The system (100) comprises a vehicle (1000) comprising a vehicle device (135) and a known service provider comprising a physica...