ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,501, issued on June 2, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).
"Access control for a motor vehicle" was invented by Lukas Reinhart (Freising, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling access to a motor vehicle includes the steps of receiving a tracking request for a new digital key for a motor vehicle, wherein the new digital key is included in a chain of digital keys that have been created from one another, and wherein the tracking request includes a chain of attestation packages that are assigned to the digital keys in pairs; determining that a digital key to which one of the attestation packages ...