ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,739, issued on April 22, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Vehicle logo based controller" was invented by David Wright McCall (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle logo-based controller is provided. The logo can include buttons. A system can include one or more processors communicatively coupled with memory and the logo. The system can detect one or more inputs from the buttons. The system can compare the one or more detected inputs with one or more stored inputs to determine a match. The system can determine, responsive to the comparison, a function of a vehicle, such as unlocking a comp...