US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 6 for "Relay system, method for relaying wireless communication, and relay base station" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,856, issued on May 6, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Relay system, method for relaying wireless communication, and relay base station" was invented by Shinichiroh Fujii (Kawasaki, Japan) and Hideo Hasegawa (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a relay system, an authentication device determines whether a registered identifier of a registered terminal possessed by a user in a vehicle matches an identifier of a first communication terminal received from a relay base station via a base station, generates a permission signal indicating whether to permit relay of wireless communication between the first c...