ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,268, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to AUMOVIO Germany GmbH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

"System and method for data management in a vehicle" was invented by Khup Khawm Mung (Singapore) and Yi Wang (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve user data management in vehicles, a computer-implemented method, for deletion of data in a data storage of a vehicle having an HSM, includes: a) a user causing an HMI to generate an erase command for private data that is suitable to personally identify the user; b) transmitting the erase command to an ECU of the vehicle; c) identifying the user by checking a user ID stored in a user ID...