ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,525, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi, Japan).

"Vehicle temporary certificate authentication" was invented by Ismail Thanickel (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of obtaining, by a server, a certificate from an IoT device associated with a vehicle, determining, by the server, the certificate is not a revoked certificate, assigning, by the server, a temporary certificate to the IoT device, and validating, by the server, the temporary certificate."

The patent was filed on Sept. 23, 2022, under Applicatio...