ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,714, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to STOP TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Montclair, Calif.).
"System and methodology that facilitates taking control of a vehicle from a remote device" was invented by Manuel Argomaniz (Montclair, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects directed towards controlling vehicles are disclosed. In a first aspect, a permission request is received from a remote device, and an authentication of the permission request is performed that depends on a distance between the vehicle and a pursuing vehicle. Control of a device on the vehicle is then granted to the remote device based on the authentication. In anot...