ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,372, issued on May 5.
"Systems and methods for enhanced vehicle valet mode" was invented by Aaron DeLong (Toledo, Ohio), Eugene Karpinsky (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Cameron Smyth (Wyandotte, Mich.), Timothy Thivierge (Carleton, Mich.), Daniel King (Northville, Mich.), Kevin Hille (Plymouth, Mich.), Farhan Ehsan (Lasalle, Canada), John Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.) and Santosh Lalwani (Dearborn, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for an enhanced valet mode for vehicles. An example method may include receiving, by a vehicle, a request for a temporary valet passcode. The example...