US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on June 30 for "Method and apparatus for determining a user profile of a vehicle on the basis of one or more key devices" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,208, issued on June 30, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and apparatus for determining a user profile of a vehicle on the basis of one or more key devices" was invented by Adem Ceylan (Munich) and Alaa Mourad (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for operating a vehicle determines whether there is a communication connection to exactly one key device or to a plurality of key devices, each respectively having a digital key for authenticating the respective key device at the vehicle. On the basis of whether there is a communication connection to exactly one key device or to a plurality of key d...