US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on April 22 for "Protection of personal data stored in vehicular computing systems" (Colorado, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,584, issued on April 22, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Protection of personal data stored in vehicular computing systems" was invented by Meredith Beveridge (Golden, Colo.), James Stephan Harrison (San Antonio) and Sumita T. Jonak (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ways of protecting personally identifiable information stored in an onboard computing system of a vehicle allow improved data security of drivers. The system and method is configured to automatically trigger a deletion or encryption of personal data stored in the motor vehicle in response to an event or other informat...