US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security on June 17 for "Vehicle identification and secure operating program" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,587, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security (Washington).

"Vehicle identification and secure operating program" was invented by Cuthbert Delmer Johnson (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to authenticate operators of motor vehicles includes obtaining, based on a driver's license, operator information of an operator of a motor vehicle. The method further includes authenticating, by a Vehicle Identification and Secure Operating Program (VISOP) running on an onboard computer of the motor vehicle, the operator information with...