ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,840, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic apparatus for vehicle and method for storing vehicle information in electronic apparatus" was invented by Hyunjoon Yoo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Min-Ho Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dongouk Moon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyoungeun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seunghan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus mounted on a first vehicle collects information of a second vehicle connected to the first vehicle, encrypts the information of the second vehicle based on a public key of the second v...