ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,104, issued on March 3, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"System and method for wireless transfer of personal vehicle configurations" was invented by Cornelius Opris (Oxford, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle settings transfer system includes a computing device that receives, at a secure server, registration information associated with a user and a first vehicle. Personalized vehicle settings of the first vehicle associated with the user are stored at the secure server. A request to transfer the personalized vehicle settings associated with the first vehicle to a second vehicle is received. A confirmatio...