ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,171, issued on June 24, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).
"In-vehicle control system for vehicle accessory integration" was invented by Josh Bayer (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Alex Yang (Redwood City, Calif.) and Bola Malek (Laguna Niguel, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for a vehicle may include one or more processors configured to execute instructions to receive, by one or more modules of the vehicle control system, a request to pair an accessory with the vehicle and determine, by the one or more modules of the vehicle control system, whether the accessory is preconfigured for pairing with the...