US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on March 17 for "Method and system for binding a user account to a digital vehicle key" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,745, issued on March 17, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and system for binding a user account to a digital vehicle key" was invented by Thorsten Knott (Tuntenhausen, Germany), Olaf Mueller (Emmering, Germany), Stefan Diewald (Moosburg a. d. Isar, Germany), Sven Hofmann (Munich), Christoph Schaefer (Germering, Germany) and Dominik Schwald (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for a vehicle for binding a user account with a digital key is disclosed herein. The method includes receiving information about an account binding of a user from an administrative platform for the vehicle, the...