ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,469, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Automatic device and vehicle pairing" was invented by Derek A. Thompson (Dallas) and Randall M. Harris (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a server, vehicle identification data from at least two components in a vehicle and device data from a device associated with the vehicle, sending, by the server, the vehicle identification data to the device and the device data to the at least two components in the vehicle, and pre-pairing the vehicle and ...