ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,946, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for storing and transmitting data by using vehicle key and apparatus" was invented by Zheng Chen (Shanghai), Linchuan Guo (Nanjing, China) and Bing Bai (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for storing and transmitting data by using a vehicle key includes: the vehicle key receives and stores first data from an intelligent vehicle, where the first data is non-real-time processing data from the intelligent vehicle; and the vehicle key sends the first data to cloud. In this way, while data transmission costs of ...