ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,544, issued on March 17, was assigned to Aiden Automotive Technologies Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).
"Automotive payment platform" was invented by Niclas Gyllenram (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automotive payment method and system, including: at a cloud system, generating a payment token, signing the payment token using a cloud private key, and sending the payment token to a vehicle system; at the vehicle system, receiving the payment token, signing the payment token using a vehicle private key, and sending the payment token to a mobile device system; and, at the mobile device system, receiving the payment token a...